What's the status of Heroku? (and other Rails hosting questions)
ph0rque: Your concerns with heroku are non-issues. The banner is a semitransparent one that adds an edit button to take you to the online editor for your app. You can configure it to not show (http://groups.google.com/group/heroku/web/heroku-toolbar-set...). Also, they are very much active in their development: check the google group postings to see what I mean.