Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1

Iteration L4: Deploying with Fewer Steps on Heroku

If you are willing to give up some measure of control, a platform as a service can make deploying much easier. Heroku is a popular service that will deploy and manage your Rails application without requiring almost any of the steps above.

With Heroku, you do a bit of up-front configuration, then use Git to push your app’s repository to them. That git push triggers Heroku to deploy your app. Heroku connects your app to a database (Postgres in this case) and handles managing logs, running background workers, and everything else you’d need.

It comes at a price. For free, your app will sleep after inactivity and has a limited pool of requests it can serve per day. To have your app up and running ...