Rails Girls Heroku Instruction

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Get Heroku

Follow steps 1 through 3 of the quickstart guide to sign up, install the toolbelt, and login.

Deploying your app

Updating our database

First, we need to get our database to work on Heroku, which uses a different database. Please change the following in the Gemfile:

gem 'sqlite3'

to

group :development do
  gem 'sqlite3'
end
group :production do
  gem 'pg'
end

Run bundle install --without production to setup your dependencies.

Version Control

We need to add our code to version control. You can do this by running the following in the terminal:

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

COACHES: This would be a good time to talk about version control systems and git.

Deploying

We need to create our heroku app by typing heroku create --stack cedar in the terminal and see something like this:

Creating evening-sky-7498... done, stack is cedar
http://evening-sky-7498.herokuapp.com/ | [email protected]:evening-sky-7498.git
Git remote heroku added

In this case "evening-sky-7498" is your app name.

Next we need to push our code to heroku by typing git push heroku master

Next we need to migrate our database like we did locally: heroku run rake db:migrate

You can now hit the app based on the url. For this example app, you can go to http://evening-sky-7498.herokuapp.com/

Latest version of this guide can be found at http://guides.railsgirls.com/heroku/