Deploying Rails apps to Heroku.

This talk was given on October 17th at Newbie Night.

The code for the example app used during the demo, and all instructions to deploy an app to heroku can be found here.

After punching ducks, patching monkeys, getting all meta and getting some quick and dirty Rails action happening … you are going to want to put that shiz on the web somewhere to show your hip(ster) finery off.

Heroku is a popular and commonly used cloud platform - used by many Rails developers to host their apps such that they can conduct user acceptance testing, through to running their apps in production mode.

This talk aims to describe:

• the way in which apps can be deployed (git)
• definition of Heroku resources (dynos, processes, process types and the Procfile)
• commonly used ‘addons’ including the heroku-postgres offering
• a quick description of the common pattern of handling asynchronous workloads (resque)

After this talk, over a beer, I am more than happy to talk about preparing an app for production mode.