Rakefile to deploy and rollback to Heroku in two different environments (staging and production) for the same app

deploy.rake

#Deploy and rollback on Heroku in staging and production
task :deploy_staging => ['deploy:set_staging_app', 'deploy:push', 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:tag']
task :deploy_production => ['deploy:set_production_app', 'deploy:push', 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:tag']

namespace :deploy do
  PRODUCTION_APP = 'YOUR_PRODUCTION_APP_NAME_ON_HEROKU'
  STAGING_APP = 'YOUR_STAGING_APP_NAME_ON_HEROKU'

  task :staging_migrations => [:set_staging_app, :push, :off, :migrate, :restart, :on, :tag]
  task :staging_rollback => [:set_staging_app, :off, :push_previous, :restart, :on]

  task :production_migrations => [:set_production_app, :push, :off, :migrate, :restart, :on, :tag]
  task :production_rollback => [:set_production_app, :off, :push_previous, :restart, :on]

  task :set_staging_app do
    APP = STAGING_APP
  end

  task :set_production_app do
  	APP = PRODUCTION_APP
  end

  task :push do
    puts 'Deploying site to Heroku ...'
    puts `git push -f [email protected]:#{APP}.git`
  end
  
  task :restart do
    puts 'Restarting app servers ...'
    puts `heroku restart --app #{APP}`
  end
  
  task :tag do
    release_name = "#{APP}_release-#{Time.now.utc.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")}"
    puts "Tagging release as '#{release_name}'"
    puts `git tag -a #{release_name} -m 'Tagged release'`
    puts `git push --tags [email protected]:#{APP}.git`
  end
  
  task :migrate do
    puts 'Running database migrations ...'
    puts `heroku rake db:migrate --app #{APP}`
  end
  
  task :off do
    puts 'Putting the app into maintenance mode ...'
    puts `heroku maintenance:on --app #{APP}`
  end
  
  task :on do
    puts 'Taking the app out of maintenance mode ...'
    puts `heroku maintenance:off --app #{APP}`
  end

  task :push_previous do
    prefix = "#{APP}_release-"
    releases = `git tag`.split("\n").select { |t| t[0..prefix.length-1] == prefix }.sort
    current_release = releases.last
    previous_release = releases[-2] if releases.length >= 2
    if previous_release
      puts "Rolling back to '#{previous_release}' ..."
      
      puts "Checking out '#{previous_release}' in a new branch on local git repo ..."
      puts `git checkout #{previous_release}`
      puts `git checkout -b #{previous_release}`
      
      puts "Removing tagged version '#{previous_release}' (now transformed in branch) ..."
      puts `git tag -d #{previous_release}`
      puts `git push [email protected]:#{APP}.git :refs/tags/#{previous_release}`
      
      puts "Pushing '#{previous_release}' to Heroku master ..."
      puts `git push [email protected]:#{APP}.git +#{previous_release}:master --force`
      
      puts "Deleting rollbacked release '#{current_release}' ..."
      puts `git tag -d #{current_release}`
      puts `git push [email protected]:#{APP}.git :refs/tags/#{current_release}`
      
      puts "Retagging release '#{previous_release}' in case to repeat this process (other rollbacks)..."
      puts `git tag -a #{previous_release} -m 'Tagged release'`
      puts `git push --tags [email protected]:#{APP}.git`
      
      puts "Turning local repo checked out on master ..."
      puts `git checkout master`
      puts 'All done!'
    else
      puts "No release tags found - can't roll back!"
      puts releases
    end
  end
end

nice gist! there's a rollback feature in heroku (maybe this is new). heroku rollback --app app_name, so you don't actually need to tag the releases yourself now. heroku releases --app app_name

here are my mods if you're curious: https://gist.github.com/4410411

I try running heroku run rake deploy but i get an error on my app:
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/task_manager.rb:49:in []' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:142:ininvoke_task'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:101:in block (2 levels) in top_level' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:101:ineach'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:101:in block in top_level' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:110:inrun_with_threads'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:95:in top_level' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:73:inblock in run'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:160:in standard_exception_handling' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/lib/rake/application.rb:70:inrun'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rake-10.0.4/bin/rake:33:in <top (required)>' /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/bin/rake:19:inload'
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/bin/rake:19:in `

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Would you know what should I do to fix this ?

Made a few abstractions, additions, protections https://gist.github.com/jphenow/5694169

Extracting the tasks into a class for easier extension:

https://gist.github.com/jfeaver/9820478

Thanks for the great foundation work @njvitto!

I added Rspec testing, improved Heroku toolbelt support, and post-deploy rake task running on my fork.

Great task! :)

A interesting thing happened the other day while I was using it to deploy code and run migrations.

Heroku Toolbelt detected that there is an update available and started updating itself in the middle of a running task. This resulted in maintenance mode being turned on, code being deployed and all other tasks cancelled because of the "update in progress" status. This left the environment down and its DB "unmigrated".

I recommend adding another task that is run first:

  task :update_toolbelt do
    puts 'Checking for Heroku Toolbelt updates ...'
    puts `heroku update`
    puts `heroku plugins:update`
  end

And you probably want to run it first when deploying to production. For example:

task :deploy_production => ['deploy:update_toolbelt', 'deploy:set_production_app', 'deploy:push', 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:tag']

namespace :deploy do
  ...
  task :production_migrations => [:update_toolbelt, :set_production_app, :push, :off, :migrate, :restart, :on, :tag]

Hope this helps!

EDIT: Added the plugin update check.