heroku.md

Deploy to Heroku

The Easy Way

If you just want to get started with Errbit and you're not sure how to proceed, you can use this deploy button to get a basic deployment running on Heroku.

After deploying the application, you still need to run heroku run rake errbit:bootstrap to create indexes and get your admin user set up.

The Hard Way

We designed Errbit to work well with Heroku. These instructions should result in a working deploy, but you should modify them to suit your needs:

Clone and prepare the source code repository

git clone git@github.com:errbit/errbit.git
cd errbit

• Update db/seeds.rb with admin credentials for your initial login

Commit the results:

git commit -m "Update db/seeds.rb with initial login"

Install the heroku toolbelt

toolbelt.heroku.com

Create an app on Heroku and push the source code

heroku apps:create
heroku addons:create mongolab:sandbox
heroku addons:create sendgrid:starter
heroku config:set GEMFILE_RUBY_VERSION=2.3.3
heroku config:set SECRET_KEY_BASE="$(bundle exec rake secret)"
heroku config:set ERRBIT_HOST=some-hostname.example.com
heroku config:set ERRBIT_EMAIL_FROM=example@example.com
heroku config:set EMAIL_DELIVERY_METHOD=smtp SMTP_SERVER=smtp.sendgrid.net
git push heroku master

Prepare the DB

heroku run rake errbit:bootstrap

Schedule recurring tasks

You may want to periodically clear resolved errors to free up space. For that you have a few options:

Option 1. With the heroku-scheduler add-on (replacement for cron):

# Install the heroku scheduler add-on
heroku addons:create scheduler:standard

# Go open the dashboard to schedule the job.  You should use
# 'rake errbit:clear_resolved' as the task command, and schedule it
# at whatever frequency you like (once/day should work great).
heroku addons:create scheduler

Option 2. With the cron add-on:

# Install the heroku cron addon, to clear resolved errors daily:
heroku addons:create cron:daily

Option 3. Clear resolved errors manually:

heroku run rake errbit:clear_resolved