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Nezumi: iPhone app to manage your Heroku apps on the go

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I use Doppler now. http://dopplerapp.com

What is better about Nezumi?

It actually works. Doppler had problems with the new Cedar stack when I was using it.

Nezumi 2 fully supports the cedar stack.

Take a minute to actually look at the nezumiapp.com site. It definitely supports a lot more, and is constantly updated.

I use Doppler on my iPhone and my iPad to do things like run rake tasks, view logs, and use the console. My only complaint with Doppler has been that it doesn't recognize newly added rake tasks.

Superb. Will it be regularly updated?

One thing I'd add is to the app overview page, add a quick overview of the processes going on. You have to go pretty deep to look at the number of workers/dynos.

It runs really smoothly, best heroku UI for the iPhone if you ask me.

I've been using it for almost two years, so yes, it is maintained :)

Looks really nice. But $9.99 is a little pricy. Then again I'm use heroku only lightly.

Agreed. I got the app free through a promo code and it's not with $9.99. At most, $5.

I can see what the developer is doing, targeting a niche market of developers - but when there are cheaper alternatives I think the price still has to remain competitive.

The problem with targeting a niche market of developers is that you have to overcome the "I could just build this myself" syndrome - whether that's through pricing, ease-of-use, etc.

If you can build a full-featured Heroku Management app for $10 worth of your time, then please email me because I want to hire you.

It's more than just the $10, though.

I'm, admittedly, a miser when it comes to paying for apps - I've only bought a small few. Consequently, I weigh the decision to drop $10 on an app pretty heavily.

Beyond that, I have very much a "learner" personality. I've created many an app just to play around with something new. I've yet to build anything that interacts with the Heroku API, so creating an app that does so allures me. The joy of learning and experimenting outweighs what my time is theoretically worth.

Granted, this is just how I see things. Others probably have very different valuations of the app vs their time. I agree that my previous argument isn't really valid from a purely "I'll build it so I don't have to pay for it" perspective.

Disagree. If this makes a DevOps person's on-call experience slightly less unpleasant, $10 is a steal.

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Nice, is there one for EngineYard?

LOVE IT!

Now, I need something as good as this for New Relic :)

I just bought it but was disappointed that there isn't an iPad optimized version. Are there plans to add that? EDIT: oh, yes there are. Please don't charge a second time ;)

EDIT: Also, "releases" page isn't sorted properly -- http://d.pr/hA5K

And the console keeps giving me a disconnection message: http://d.pr/1vVq but I think that might be because it's a Cedar stack app...?

Releases will be fixed in 2.1 (awaiting app store review right now). Cedar console is supported. The console basically runs `bundle exec rails console`. Is the app you're running console on a rails app? If it's not a rails app you will need to use the run command to run your platform specific console command.

Ah that explains it, it's a Python app. Would be cool to get into an interactive Python shell but I'm not sure if Heroku supports that.

If it's a django app then it will. Just use the run command, see http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django#using_the_django...

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