Deploy Your Rails Application Into Heroku

Envato Tuts+ Courses

• Video courses taught by expert instructors.
• Learn new skills from start to finish.
• Downloadable Source Files also available on GitHub.

Course Description

Heroku is a cloud-based hosting provider that allows easy deployment of web applications. With a free tier suitable for hosting small applications, Heroku makes it easy to get started publishing a new web app. Later, Heroku’s paid tiers allow you to scale to support your growing user base.

In this course, Tuts+ instructor José Mota will demonstrate how easy it is to deploy a Rails application into Heroku. You’ll learn how to prepare your application and how to deploy it using command-line tools. You’ll also learn some tricks for maintaining your application once it’s live.

What You’ll Learn

• How to install the Heroku Toolbelt and prepare your Rails app for production.
• How to deploy your application to the cloud.
• Use the Heroku logging system to help you maintain your app.
• How to work with environment variables.
• Useful commands in the Heroku command-line interface.

About the Instructor

José Mota is a Rubyist, Javascripter, UI designer, occasional speaker, and Mac & Arch Linux user. You can find out more on his website.