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We support all Ruby frameworks, not only Rails.

We believe that by focusing on Ruby we can provide better service than we would if we had to support multiple runtimes and application architectures.

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My node.js setup wants to thank you for your attention to our kind. I think I'm also hearing some Django persons hissing on this.

But thanks, reading your "We are so much better than Heroku because X" auto-congratulatory post to then see you stumble on the issue of multiple languages was funny :)

We're not saying that Shelly Cloud better than Heroku in general, we're just pointing out that focusing on one language has it's benefits. There is a market for generic solutions like Heroku, and specific ones like Shelly Cloud, Nodejitsu, etc.

Shelly cloud is an outgrowth of a application development company with extensive Ruby and Rails experience, and probably limited resources.

It makes sense for them to focus on what they do best rather than a broader, so-so service.

Money quote: "If someone doesn't really hate your product, it's mediocre."

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