Exceptional & Heroku

p. 1. Create a new rails application

p((. left ident 2em<pre><code>$ rails Blog</code></pre>

p. 2. Add some functionality to the new app

 <code>$ ./script/generate scaffold Post title:string body:text</code>

p. 3. Test the new application to make sure its running ok

 <code>$ rake db:migrate</code>
 <code>$ ./script/server</code>

p. 4. Create an app on getexceptional.com

If you do not already have an account, then you can sign up for free <a href="http://getexceptional.com">here</a>

Otherwise create new app within your Exceptional account

5. Install The Exceptional Plugin

 <code>$ script/plugin install git://github.com/contrast/exceptional.git</code>

6. Configure the Get Exceptional Plugin with your API Key

You can copy-paste the command direct from the 'install instructions' screen within Exceptional

e.g
 <code>$ cat vendor/plugins/exceptional/exceptional.yml | sed "s/PASTE_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE/1234567980/" > config/exceptional.yml</code>

7. Install Heroku Gem
 <code>sudo gem install Heroku</code>

8. Initialize this app as a Git repository
 <code>git init</code>
 <code>git add .<code
 <code>git commit -m "My New Heroku Rails App"</code>