I'm looking into using the new Realm Mobile Platform for a project of mine. I've gone through the guides and was able to get it up and running locally no problem. My question is, what's the best way to deploy the Realm Object Server so it can be run remotely? I read through the guide found here but didn't really understand it. I only have minimal experience deploying a rails app to heroku. How can I get it deployed to Heroku or a similar service? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
It's hard to tell you what the "best" way is. There are always drawbacks and benefits to any setup, and everyone has different goals and objectives, so I don't think there is an objective "best way to run it," as you say.
The Realm Object Server doesn't support Heroku for the time being (or at least, no easy one-click-install integration). We know that this is something that people want, so it's on our radar, but I can't give you a definite answer as to when or even if we will do this one day.
The way most people run the Object Server is by running a virtual machine, and running the service inside of that. There are multiple ways to achieve this: start a virtual machine with your favourite cloud provider, and then install the Realm Object Server on top of that. Alternatively, Realm also provides an AMI image, which is Amazon lingo for "a pre-configured virtual machine image," that contains the Object Server pre-installed, and allows you to run your Object Server at the click of a button.
Please bear in mind that Realm Object Server is currently packaged for RHEL/CentOS 6 & 7, and Ubuntu 16.04.
Here are some links that should help you get started: