Build Facebook Apps in Ruby with New Heroku Package

" Heroku makes building and scaling Facebook applications easier than ever. Developers can focus on their app,getting it in the hands of millions of Facebook users quickly " Mike Vernal, Director of Facebook Platform

Heroku's CEO Byron Sebastian says that :

"Facebook apps are a clear category where we've seen customers large and small successfully reach millions of new potential customers and users on our platform. The Heroku Facebook initiative helps customers leverage the best practices we have identified from working with these thousands of apps."

Heroku's Ruby-focused platform is already more than 99,000 apps strong. The startup's new Facebook App Package will help companies large and small create Facebook apps with ease, using the Facebook Graph API in Ruby.

Mike Vernal is Facebook’s director of platform. He said in a release, “Heroku makes building and scaling Facebook applications easier than ever. Developers can focus on their app, getting it in the hands of millions of Facebook users quickly. ”

For more information on how Facebook development via Heroku works, check out the documentation. The package’s suite of tools comes to $1,500 per month, a special introductory price that includes a
$300-per-month discount.