Configuring for Heroku

Note: You will need a Heroku account for this tutorial

Configuring Herkou for an existing Rails app

We will need to make some small modifications to our existing app

Note: If this is the first time you are using Heroku for a project, you will need execute the folowing to login to Heroku.

heroku login

Create a git repository, if you don't have one already

git init
curl -o .gitignore https://cdn.rawgit.com/dwa012/794d1bf61602689e0b32/raw
git add .
git commit -a -m 'First Commit'

Add the 12 factor gem to the Gemfile

• Open the Gemfile in RubyMine and paste this at the bottom

gem 'rails_12factor', group: :production

Update the config/database.yml to have the proper production settings

• Change the following at the bottom of the file

production:
    <<: *default
    database: workspace_production  
    username: workspace
    password: <%= ENV['WORKSPACE_DATABASE_PASSWORD'] %>

• To this

production:
    <<: *default
    url: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %>