GettingStartedWithHerokuUseingRails.md

#Heroku Setup

This information can be found in more detail here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-rails3#prerequisites

###Prerequisites

• Ruby version 2.0.0
• Heroku Account
• Git repo set up
• Heroku Toolbelt installed on your locale machine: https://toolbelt.herokuapp.com/osx

$ heroku login
# Login with your heroku email and password.
# If it asks "Would you like to generate one? [Yn]". Enter "y".

##Rails 3

###Setting up PostgreSQL

#####New Rails Project

1. rails new myapp --database=postgresql

#####Excising Rails Project

1. In your gemfile change gem 'sqlite3' to gem 'pg'.
2. $ bundle install
3. Change your config/database.yml to look something like this.

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: myapp_development
  pool: 5
  username: myapp
  password:
test:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: myapp_test
  pool: 5
  username: myapp
  password:
production:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: myapp_production
  pool: 5
  username: myapp
  password:

4. Switch the username and password.

###Setting Up Rails

1. In your config/application.rb change this line of code.

config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false

2. In your gemfile add ruby '2.0.0' (This makes Heroku happy.)

###Setting Up Git

1. Run.

$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "init"

2. Create your heroku app. You can add a app name to the end of the command but it must be unique.

$ heroku create (optional name)

3. Push your code to heroku

$ git push heroku master

4. Visit your site and hope its not broken...

$ heroku open

5. Run your migrations

$ heroku run rake db:migrate

6. Restart Heroku

$ heroku restart

###Figaro SetUp:

If you are useing figaro you will need to run rake figaro:heroku to tell heroku about your secert vaiables.