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- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Adam Wiggins
Application deployment is changing. In relatively short order I’ve gone from buying hardware, to monthly hosting, to metered CPU time, and from building my open-source software manually, to package managers, to fancy config tools and recipes to pre-build whole machine images. What’s next?
The Old Way
I can deploy Rails apps in a traditional hosting environment pretty quickly. For a small app, I might make a new unix user and database on a personal Slicehost slice and do a quick code checkout. After setting up a few permissions and twiddling my Nginx config, in a matter of fifteen minutes or…
- News
- Last Updated: September 18, 2008
- Adam Wiggins
Hoptoad (now Airbrake) is a great service by Thoughtbot for collecting exceptions. Like exception_notifier, but without clogging your inbox, and much prettier.
Using Hoptoad with Heroku is a cinch. First, sign up for a free Hoptoad account .
Now install their notifier plugin. If you’re working locally and deploying to Heroku with Git, install with script/plugin:
script/plugin install git://github.com/thoughtbot/hoptoad_notifier.git
Or if you’re using the Heroku web editor, open the vendor folder and click Gems & Plugins, then enter the plugin URL in the “Install from URL” box at the bottom.
Next, create a new file config/initializers/hoptoad.rb containing:
HoptoadNotifier.configure do |config|
config.api_key = ‘your_key_here’
end
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