MaggieMoss / sinatra-deployment-guide

Steps for deploying a sinatra app to heroku

Deploy Sinatra Apps to Heroku

• Before deploying to heroku, you'll want to edit your Gemfile and your config/database.rb file. Use the examples in this repo as a guide.

NOTE: If you are deploying your finstagram app for the Intro to Web course your files should match exactly

Steps for deploying a sinatra app to heroku

1. Create an account at heroku.com
2. In the terminal, run:

• heroku login
• Next, you will be prompted to enter the email you entered for your Heroku account, along with the password (the cursor will not move when you enter your password).
• Next, run: heroku create

3. Back in the heroku dashboard (dashboard link):

• Find the project that's been created for you, and click it.
• Click the resources tab
• Add an add-on for postgres: "Heroku Postgres"
• Click it to view its details
• Copy its URL (You’ll have to click a show button, it’ll be hidden) - it'll be a long string like: postgres://esfdizmindqtqp:W4B8yrM...
• Edit your config/database.rb file to use this URL (~ line 9)

5. Run bundle install
6. Save your code using git:

• a) git status
• b) git add .
• c) git commit -m "Readies app for deployment"

7. Launch with: git push heroku
8. Create the database: heroku run bundle exec rake db:migrate

Updating your app

1. git add .
2. git commit -m "your-descriptive-git-message"
3. git push heroku

If you have made changes to the database

4. heroku run bundle exec rake db:migrate

Links:

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rack
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/heroku-postgres
• http://www.sinatrarb.com/documentation.html