Heroku

I just upgraded this site to use bundler and the heroku Bamboo stack. The steps were: 1. Remove the .gems file, and create a Gemfile. 2. Patch the Rails 2.3 installation for bundler 3. Run heroku command: heroku stack:migrate bamboo-ree-1.8.7 4.Run command: bundle install 5. Commit all changes to git, and push to heroku. I am really impressed with the ease at which this was done. Heroku continues to impress, and Bundler is the best thing to happen to Ruby since Rails. ...

I recently deployed to heroku and was greeted with the dreaded “App Crashed” dialogue. In this particular case it was for a higher traffic production site, so I was frantic to fix it. A quick heroku logs showed that the memcache gem was missing. I scratched my head a little bit and did a quick git log on the .gem file. It hadn’t changed in months. Time was ticking, so I looked up the current version that I needed for the environment and I added it in. Another git push and I waited. All the gems were pulled in and the instance started successfully. In my haste to move on to the next task, I didn’t follow up too much and just assumed that this was a fluke. ...