This rake task is for deploying your Ruby on Rails app to heroku

deploy.rake

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namespace :heroku do
  desc "Deploy to staging environment hosted on heroku"
  task :deploy, :app do |t, args|
    heroku_app = args[:app]
    system("heroku maintenance:on --app #{heroku_app}")
    system("git push heroku master")
    system("heroku run rake db:migrate")
    system("heroku maintenance:off --app #{heroku_app}")
  end
end