Ask HN: Why does nearly every Ruby on rails tutorial/book ask to use Heroku?

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   Heroku is the OG of affordable rails hosting. If the tutorial is older than 3-4 years ago then it was published when Heroku was free, which it no longer is.

   There are lots of other affordable, but probably not free, options now;

   https://railway.app/

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