Play framework is an interesting web development option, using Netty directly as a web server, providing a basic MVC framework to build web applications on. A Here's how you marry them both.. The documentation out there ( git quick starts ) seem to be outdated. But, its simple really and truly DIY.. So, thought I would let people know. 1. Install Play 2.0 Spin up the play server and make sure something renders on the localhost. 2. Open an account with openshift.com and create a DIY application When you checkout the git projects, by default, you get the following directory structure with a Ruby script to serve up a index.html page. $ ls -a . .. .git .openshift README diy misc $ ls diy logs index.html testrubyserver.rb $ ls .openshift/action_hooks build deploy post_deploy pre_build start stop 3. Package your Play app $ play stage $ target/...