Comments on: Deploying a Rails app on Heroku (paperclip, gems, yml)

By: Yang Chung

Yang Chung — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:25:58 +0000

As long as you don’t merge production to master, you should be okay, and I don’t know if there is a rake task, but it’s a good idea if you can create a rake task yourself.

Because I use facebooker and I keep facebooker.yml away from master branch. So I end up doing a lot of work and test in production branch, because running local server needs facebooker.yml. When I am satisfied, I go back to master branch, commit the changes, push to github, go to production branch, merge from master and push to Heroku. Perhaps I should write a little shell script to automate this process……some day. :)

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:52:08 +0000

Hi there, thanks for this post, it’s very helpful although I have a question regarding keeping secret yaml files off github.

You say that the best way is to do the following:

git checkout production
[remove those yml files from .gitignore]
git merge master
git push heroku production:master

Is there some kind of rake task that will keep this production branch synched up with master or do you just have to remember to do it yourself on every deploy?

Thanks again, it’s a really neat little tip.

By: Jim Lawrence

Jim Lawrence — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:39:21 +0000

Great post! I’ve had great experiences too… Thanks for the helpful guide, I’m interested in using S3 with Heroku.