Question

I am making a game for Android and using Rails for server coding, and I was wondering how I could get a Rails 3.1 or 3.2 app running somewhere that an android device would have access to from anywhere. I’d like to test the interactions between the two and I am new to any kind of server/web development.

I understand their is localhost, but I am unsure if an Android device can access this.

Being specific as possible would be excellent, thanks guys.

Answer 1

Heroku would be the easiest solution.

http://www.heroku.com/

edit: Since you need filesystem access you’ll need to run the app on your own server. Linode is a pretty good choice.

http://library.linode.com/frameworks/ruby-on-rails-nginx/ubuntu-10.10-maverick

http://help.github.com/deploy-with-capistrano/