META: Heroku

[adambray]

2015-01-13

• figure out tasks needed to set up fully running instance
  • setting RAILS_HOST_NAME (get application name somehow?)
  • cron jobs
• write up guide on the wiki page
  • include guide to changing user credentials and app configs
  • include distinction between Heroku button and regular deployment
• set up heroku button

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Things we need to fix to use heroku:

• email (including smtp settings)
• file uploads to aws S3 instead of local
• devise branch merging
• remove any references to sub-uri deployments
• create config/settings.yml that initializers load from
• how to handle Application.config.secret_token in open source

[orenyk]

We should review this list, but until the non-CAS authentication issue is solved (#2) this isn't really relevant. Also, see #110 for past work on Heroku compatibility.

[mnquintana]

I'm not 100% sure on this, but it's possible some of these are no longer relevant (since Heroku has introduced a lot of changes since 2012) - for instance, they have MySQL now so we wouldn't have to switch to postgres.

[orenyk]

Yup, I was going to add the PG requirement but then remembered that it wasn't relevant anymore. I think that after 4.0.0 and our dependency / Gemfile revamping (#585, #600) we can see what's left to do.