Deploy Sinatra project

Question

I have just started learning ruby. So now I have setup a basic Sinatra project, just wondering where I can deploy it for free without credit card details? As Heroku has no free tier anymore. Also, I would like to know with the seeds.rb I generate random data, would those data be able to used after deploy.

I have tried couple other platforms(render, railway, AWS…), but they either are not free or hard for deploying

Answer 1

Currently Fly.io and Digital Ocean are popular replacement for Heroku.

Yes, you can seed the database used in the deployment.

Then you can either

1. Run rake db:seed on the deployed application or
2. Connect to the database from you development machine and run rake db:seed