I'm quite surprised actually to not even find a previous request for this. Heroku is a common requirement nowadays for developping websites. http://heroku.com source code (ruby) : https://github.com/heroku/heroku "official" installation instruction: https://toolbelt.heroku.com/ From what I understand it extracts a tgz in /usr/local/heroku, ugly. There's already some ebuilds in overlays, such as : https://gpo.zugaina.org/dev-util/heroku-client