For Developers Rails: Running a scheduler Heroku offer's a pretty nifty scheduler [https://elements.heroku.com/addons/scheduler] add-on for running jobs on your app at scheduled time intervals, much like cron in a traditional server environment. If you ever need to create something similar in a non-Heroku environment, here's how using whenever [https://github.com/
For Developers Heroku: Managing Multiple Accounts I feel like this is the first thing Heroku should tell you about after installing Toolbelt [https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli]. For the longest time, I thought the only way to switch between different accounts was by logging out and logging back in. Here's how you can work with
For Developers Heroku: Upgrading your database Here's a process I've found for upgrading your database on Heroku. There are many more commands and I highly suggest reviewing the Heroku Documentation [https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-backups]. First, check the status of your databse. heroku pg:info Set your app to maintenance mode. heroku maintenance:on Create
For Developers Heroku: Dynamically capture your Dyno URL Today I needed my Rails app to look at it's own production URL and capture the HOST information. After spending an hour looking for an answer, I found this very elegant answer. heroku config:set HEROKU_URL=$(heroku info -s | grep web_url | cut -d= -f2) Source [http://stackoverflow.com/
For Developers Heroku: How to Publish an Existing Rails App With Rails 5, the deployment process to Heroku has gotten even easier. Here are the steps to publishing a new Heroku app without using a one-click install. STEP 1 - Create Rails App Make sure you have a Rails 5 app that uses a postgresql database. rails _5.0.0_
For Developers Heroku: Working with Git and Github Heroku uses Git for version control and collaborative coding. Below are a few helpful commands plus a better process for app development. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Review remote Review where you are hosting remote repos git remote git remote -v Publish to Heroku Publish to Heroku's master branch. git push heroku master Revert
For Developers Heroku: Publishing a Sinatra App When it comes to publishing web (or API-only) apps, I either pick Openshift [https://www.openshift.com/] or Heroku [https://dashboard.heroku.com/] for hosting. Both services are great but when it comes to building for Sinatra, Heroku is just a tiny bit easier to use. Both services use git
