jlatt / sbsdiffs

Side-by-Side Diffs Oauth App for Github

Side-by-Side Diffs for Github

sbsdiffs is a flask app that is easily deployed to heroku. A reference app runs at diff.jlatt.com.

Deploying

• Register a new application on Github to get an oauth consumer key and secret.
• Create a new application on Heroku.
• Generate a key for Flask sessions in python:

>>> import os
>>> os.urandom(24).encode('base64').strip()

• Set the following environment variables:

GITHUB_CONSUMER_KEY='.........'
GITHUB_CONSUMER_SECRET='..........'
FLASK_SESSION_KEY='......'

• Push to heroku:

$ git push heroku master