Production ready Rails 4 and Heroku template¶ ↑

This template contains the following:

• Ruby 2.2.0

• Sass

• Bootstrap with variable customization setup

• Coffeescript

• Slim

• Postgres

• Unicorn

• Figaro

• rails_12factor for Heroku

Setup¶ ↑

git clone git@github.com:jbhatab/rails-heroku-template.git

bundle install

Create /config/application.yml file for enviroment variables. Example is in config folder.

Install postgres on local machine

rake db:create

rake s. This is a rake task that runs unicorn.

Note: When pushing to production use figaro’s command to send config vars,

rake figaro:heroku

or

rake figaro:heroku to pass the heroku app name

Use uptime robot or pingdom to remove downtime on heroku’s free worker dyno.