Push2heroku

Makes it easy to push to heroku.

Installation

Add this to Gemfile:

gem 'push2heroku'

Usage

After installing the gem copy this file to config/push2heroku.yml .

Change the contents of config/push2heroku.yml as per your needs after reading rest of README.

What problem it solves

Here at BigBinary we create a separate branch for each feature we work on. Let's say that I am working on authentication with facebook. When I am done with the feature then I send pull request to my team members to review. However in order to review the work all the team members need to pull down the branch and fire up rails server and then review.

We like to see things working. So we developed push2heroku to push a feature branch to heroku instantly with one command. Executing push2heroku prints a url and we put that url in the pull request so that team members can actually test the feature.

Here is how it works

push2heroku reads the push2heroku.yml and executes those commands. It's that simple.

Lets say that I am working in a branch called 76-facebook-authentication. When I execute push2heroku then the application name under which it will be deployed to heroku will be nimbleshop-76-facebook-neeraj.

nimbleshop is the name of the project. 76-facebook is the first 10 letters of the branch name. neeraj is the first 5 letters of my github user name.

So in this case the url of the application will be http://nimbleshop-76-facebook-neeraj.herokuapp.com .

In the push2heroku.yml file the keys production and staging are branch names. And these branches are special branches. For these branches the url generated will be just the application name and the branch name. For example if I execute rake push2heroku from staging branch then the heroku url will be http://nimbleshop-staging.herokuapp.com.

However if I delete staging key from push2heroku.yml then staging is no longer a special branch and the heroku url would be http://nimbleshop-staging-neeraj.herokuapp.com .

Resetting the database

When the application is deployed for the very first time then you want the database to reset and some sort of setup to be run. However on subsequest deployment you do not need to run those setup tasks.

To incorporate that on first deployment push2heroku will execute commands mentioned under key hard. Here hard stands for hard push. Subsequent pushes will be soft push.

If you want to force hard push anytime then execute rake push2heroku HARD=true.

License

push2heroku is released under MIT License.