Ruby function to create a new Heroku app with the Heroku Platform API

create_heroku_app.rb

# Function to create a new Heroku app instance using the ruby Heroku Platform API
#
# Documentation:
# https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/setting-up-apps-using-the-heroku-platform-api
# https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/platform-api-reference#app-setup
# https://github.com/heroku/platform-api
# https://heroku.github.io/platform-api
#
# Add the gem 'platform-api'
require "platform-api"

def create_heroku_app(app_name:, heroku_org:, branch:, github_account:, github_repo:, config_vars:)
  # requires a github token with "repo" access. Create one here: https://github.com/settings/tokens
  github_token = ENV["GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN"]
  raise "GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN" unless github_token

  heroku_token = ENV["HEROKU_TOKEN"] || `heroku auth:token`.strip.presence
  raise "You are not logged into heroku cli. Log in with heroku login" unless heroku_token

  client = PlatformAPI.connect_oauth(heroku_token)
  app_setup_client = PlatformAPI::AppSetup.new(client)

  app_setup_client.create(
    {
      app: {
        name: app_name,
        organization: heroku_org
      },
      source_blob: {
        url:
          "https://user:#{github_token}@api.github.com/repos/#{github_account}/#{github_repo}/tarball/#{branch}"
      },
      overrides: {
        env: config_vars
      }
    }
  )
end

@chaadow Awesome! Glad to hear it.