how do i go about uploading a rails app that works locally (on MAMP) to a live server?
thanks
There are numerous solutions. The most common one is using capistrano, but you could find some hosting solution with their own deployment process like Heroku.
Rails guides on the subject: http://rubyonrails.org/deploy
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I am trying to deploy an ecomm site I am developing to Heroku.
I am using Rails 4, Spree 2.1 with the Spree_Fancy theme overtop that, S3 for images, and postgres as database in all environments.
The application is working perfectly on my local machine, but when I deployed it to Heroku, the front end breaks. The app runs via Heroku, but there is no styling at all, no theme, nothing. Just plain text and "no products found" message.
I expected there to be no images (since none had yet been uploaded to s3), but there were no products either, even though the db migrations ran.
Any ideas of what I am missing?
I've just answered on another thread the same problem scenario. Hope it helps.
Broken spree_fancy layout on heroku
I am new to rails and this question might be very basic. I learnt ruby on rails to create a small site which i have tested on herokuapp as well.
Now, I want to deploy it in the actual site which is hosted on justhost.
How should the application be deployed? Is there any way we could move the herokuapp directly to the server?
Thanks in advance.
Have you tried checking their help section? This tutorial from their website should show you everything you need: https://my.justhost.com/cgi/help/upload-site
I am developing a chat application using rails 3.2.12 and a great gem called private pub, for which you can find a screencast here. It is built on top of faye and enables you to easily build real time chats by pushing messages.
Now, deploying it on heroku actually is not that simple with private pub. Apparently, you have to set up another app for the faye channel and then subscribe to that channel from your other app.
This is all very confusing. Neither private pub nor faye have anything about deployment on heroku in their documentation. I have found these two links:
Private Pub on Heroku | Rails 3
http://webprogramming29.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/setup-privatepub-or-faye-on-heroku/
However, I don't really understand them since they start at a more advanced level.
Has anyone of you ever deployed a private pub/faye app on heroku and can give a step by step guide? Thanks!
You can checkout my sample chat at github https://github.com/Hareramrai/batkaro.
You can also checkout private_pub server code at github https://github.com/Hareramrai/fayeserver .
If someone is looking for a more up to date answer, I just released a gem that enables real time behavior in a Rails app:
https://github.com/dchacke/entangled
It sounds like, from the articles that you linked, that you need to have two web processes running. One for the normal web server, and one for the Faye server.
It may be easier to have two Heroku apps rather than trying to get each running within the same app.
Does anyone know if there is any issues with converting a Rails app to Sinatra with Heroku? I already have a Heroku app running and it is currently a simple Rails app that is basically a few views and a controller with no database interaction. Are there any potential issues if I just change everything from Rails to Sinatra?
There shouldn't be any issues, other than the manual work required by you. You'll want to make sure and update your Procfile to run your Sinatra app correctly. See here for Deploying Rack-based Apps on Heroku's Devcenter. I also recommend using Foreman for local development, it should helping to find any possible issues running on Heroku easier: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile#developing-locally-with-foreman
Let me start by saying I have never deployed a Rails app before.
I have a domain with a main site ran by PHP, let's call it http://www.example.com/.
I have began developing for Rails recently, and I'd like to host the new application I created on http://www.example.com/myapp while still keeping the original site intact.
The main site is hosted on Godaddy.com, but in my understanding they do not support rails well (my application is written in Rails 2.3.5). With that being said, I decided to host my rails app on Dreamhost.com.
So I have two questions: how do I deploy a rails app in a 'folder' on the main domain that actually links to dreamhost. Second, where do I get started with deploying the app?
Thank you!
Personally, I would setup a subdomain on dreamhost: http://myapp.example.com/
Then if you want people to be able to access it via http://www.example.com/myapp, put an .htaccess redirect on your godaddy site:
redirect 301 /myapp/ http://myapp.example.com/
Information on deploying Ruby on Rails on dreamhost's wiki:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails