Deploying Sharetribe to Heroku

Deploying Sharetribe to Heroku.md

Deploying to Heroku

1. Deploy the app to heroku following heroku normal instructions (add link to heroku help)

2. Set heroku environment variables

   Make sure all the options in config.yml are properly set then run:

    bundle exec rake heroku:config
   

   Copy, paste and run the generated command

3. Remove postgres addon

    heroku addons:destroy heroku-postgresql
   

4. Addons: MemCachier (free) and SSL ($20)

    heroku addon:create memcachier:dev
    heroku addons:create ssl:endpoint
   

5. Addons: New Relic

    heroku addon:create newrelic:wayne
   

   Open the addon by running

    heroku addon:open newrelic
   

   Click on the top-right dropdown menu and select "Account Settings". On your account page, copy your License key. Open config/newrelic.yml to set license_key variable value to your license.

6. Addon: Flying Sphinx ($55)

    heroku addons:create flying_sphinx:ceramic
   

   Ceramic plan is needed for Delta indexes. If you can manage without Delta Indexing, smaller plan is also ok

7. Addon: MySQL

    heroku addon:create cleardb:ignite
   

   Now get your database url by running

    heroku config:get CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL
   

   Copy the value of CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL returned and CHANGE the adapter from mysql:// to mysql2:// (there's a 2 there). Then set the value of DATABASE_URL environment variable.

    heroku config:add DATABASE_URL='mysql2://{the rest of your connection string}'
   

   And initialize your database

    heroku run bundle exec rake db:schema:load
   

8. Addon: Heroku scheduler

    heroku addon:create scheduler:standard
   

   Open the scheduler

    heroku addon:open scheduler
   

   And add the following jobs

   Job	Frequency
   flying-sphinx index	hourly
   rails runner "CommunityMailer.deliver_community_updates"	Daily
   rake sharetribe:delete_expired_auth_tokens	Daily

Recomended dyno sizes

• web: Standard-2X
• worker: Standard-2X

Thanks. It took some doing, but I got this to deploy on Heroku. Thank you for the comprehensive guide. I will say that I had to remove the environment variable from the passenger max-pool-size to get this to work. If you run into deployment problems, consider changing the first line of Procfile to read:

web: bundle exec passenger start -p $PORT --max-pool-size 3

Cheers.

Thanks for the guide, this needs to mention setting up sphinx properly.

1. if you're using cleardb you need to grab the certificate chain from them and configure thinking sphinx to use that chain (the default seems to be a RDS cert chain)
2. need to initialize flying sphinx with flying-sphinx rebuild first time around

Any idea how to get braintree working?

How to get gmail smtp working?

Hi,
When I execute : bundle exec rake heroku:config I have the following message:

rake aborted!
LoadError: cannot load such file -- mysql2
/Users/Inel/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.4/gems/thinking-sphinx-3.1.4/lib/thinking_sphinx.rb:6:in `require'

anyone has had the same problem ?

Make sure you set up s3 too otherwise you won't be able to upload images.

And make sure you set up a CDN as outlined here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/using-amazon-cloudfront-cdn#adding-cloudfront-to-rails otherwise your javascript and css assets won't be served once you set up s3.

And don't forget to update your cdn settings to allow CORS sharing, as outlined here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25945419/how-do-i-configure-access-control-allow-origin-with-rails-and-nginx/25977267#25977267

Otherwise your fonts will not work.

For sphinx this is what worked for me:
1 - Download your certificates (3 files) from ClearDB dashboard
2 - Remove password form the key file as follows:
$ openssl rsa -in cleardb_id-key.pem -out cleardb_id-key-no-password.pem
3 - Remove the -no-password from the new file and add the new file plus the other two to your repo and configure them under the prod section of your thinking_sphinx.yml
4 - deploy your changes and run
heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx configure
heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx rebuild
heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx index 
heroku run bundle exec flying-sphinx start

5 - Try doing a search and you should not see the red error anymore

This is a good Q&A: http://support.flying-sphinx.com/discussions/problems/2037-no-erros-but-search-is-not-working-on-heroku

If you are deploying 5.8, you need to make sure you set up the node multipack first otherwise the NPM calls will fail: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/using-multiple-buildpacks-for-an-app

When there is no schema.rb in the project folder,

how will the following command works?

heroku run bundle exec rake db:schema:load

@johnsonyeap - Sharetribe uses SQL - command is

heroku run bundle exec rake db:structure:load

Also, AFAIK SSL:endpoint addon is not necessary with less than 1% of browsers requiring it.

Instead, just upload your certificate to Heroku, no addon needed.

I've created an updated version of these instructions if anyone needs them here

Cheers

What the mininum to deploy a serve at heroku? Like 500users? 1 dyno + ceramic + free addons?

What are the values that should be overridden in config.yml? The default example doesn't mention the required fields.

Also, does anyone know why the following command fails:
heroku run bundle exec rake db:structure:load

bash: bundle: command not found.

I had already pushed the app once using `git push heroku' after creating the app.