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Heroku: Up and Running
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Heroku: Up and Running

by Neil Middleton, Richard Schneeman
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
100 pages
2h 36m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 7. When It Goes Wrong

Exceptions happen, even on exceptionally well-written applications. But when the unthinkable happens, how can you find your problems and fix them? Let’s dig into debugging problems on deploy and during runtime.

Dev Center

Heroku maintains a wealth of documentation via articles about all sorts of topics related to the platform and the various tools that surround it. If you’re having problems, this should be your first port of call as you should be able to find detailed information about the moving parts surrounding the issue you are experiencing.

The Heroku DevCenter can be found here.

Heroku Support

Remember, you’re not on your own. Once you’ve gone through all of the debugging you can by yourself, don’t forget that Heroku provides support for applications, in addition to the community-based forum support on Stack Overflow.

Even with support from outside sources, you will still need to troubleshoot your issue. Heroku can help you with its platform, but what about when the issue is inside of your app? The following debugging sections can help you solve your issue, or at least give you greater insight into what is happening with your app on the platform, which will help the support process go much smoother.

Let’s take a look at some common deployment problems.

Deploy Debugging

I can’t deploy, why?

As you use the Heroku platform, you will likely find yourself in this position at some time. Not to worry, though—deployment is the best place your application could ...

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