Heroku, a San Francisco-based provider of Ruby on Rails application tools, raised a $3 million round of funding, from Redpoint Ventures and some other investors. This investment will allow them to beef up their current offerings, expand into other parts of the development process, and build out the company to support their quickly growing developer community.

Heroku provides a full stack platform. No decisions necessary, just get straight to coding your app. Heroku is built on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), so your apps have access to unlimited computing power. When you create or import an app with Heroku, it’s already live on the web. No configuration or deployment necessary. With a full Ruby and Rails runtime environment, you can run any Ruby code you can write, no limits. Install any gem or plugin directly into your app with one click. Pull from the standard gem and plugin directories, or upload your own.

“In the meantime, our private beta is really rocking. We now have over 10,000 developers building apps on the platform, with over 12,000 apps built so far. This enormous amount of activity is really helping us to hone Heroku into a smooth and sharp tool, and we look forward to opening up the beta in the coming months.” - said by James Lindenbaum from Heroku.

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