Heroku was chosen as the hosting website as the service is free and offers the following advantages: a) Easy to deploy an app b) Improved developer productivity c) Free category is available (not only the service itself but also heaps of add-ons are available for free) d) Auto-scaling is supported e) supportive tools f) Easy setup g) Beginner and startup-friendly h) Short learning curve
In particular a), c), f), g) & h) were of importance to my learning stage at this point as I am a junior navagating the word of RoR and needed something that was beginner friendly!
Obtained GitHub repos using Curl and created a new route in app/repo in github.erb
Used rackup config.ru to start server
--> learned about the differences amongst Rack vs. Sinatra vs. Rails