Heroku Deployment Guide

Welcome to the Reservations Heroku deployment guide. Please select which of the following methods you're using to deploy to Heroku: Heroku button or Heroku toolbelt / CLI.

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Heroku Button

Deploying to Heroku with the Heroku button is quick, easy, and a great way to get an instance of Reservations up and running quickly. The steps for a fully-functioning deployment are as follows:

Set up deployment

1. Click on the "Deploy to Heroku" button in the README
2. Create a Heroku account or sign in to your existing account
3. Enter an application name (this must be unique across all users of Heroku)
4. Enter the instance hostname for the RAILS_HOST_NAME config setting
5. Click the "Deploy for Free" button

Finalize instance configuration

1. When deployment is finished, click on the "Make your first edit" link
2. Click on the "Settings" link
3. Click on the "Reveal Config Vars" button
4. Click on the "Edit" button
5. Copy the MANDRILL_APIKEY var into the RES_SMTP_PASSWORD var and the MANDRILL_USERNAME var into the RES_SMTP_USERNAME var and click the "Save" button
6. Click on the "Resources" link
7. Click on the "Scheduler" add-on link
8. Schedule hourly (rake run_hourly_tasks) and daily (rake run_daily_tasks) rake tasks

• Note that these jobs will consume Heroku resources and can result in your application costing you money. For more information see here.

Edit instance settings

1. Visit your instance (http://my-reservations-app.herokuapp.com)
2. Click on the "Sign In" link on the top-right corner
3. Log in with the email email@email.com and password passw0rd
4. Visit the application settings
5. Edit the settings to your liking and click on the "Update Settings" button on the bottom of the page; make sure to change the "Admin email" setting to your e-mail address so you receive notifications
6. Visit your user profile
7. Click on the "Edit Information" button on the bottom of the page and edit your profile as desired; make sure to change your "Email" and "Password" at a minimum

Have fun!

• Visit our documentation site for instructions on how to use your new app!

• If you want to clear the database and start fresh, you should run the following from the command line with the Heroku remote set up properly (see here for more info):

heroku run rake db:drop heroku run rake db:create heroku run rake db:schema:load heroku run rake app:setup

Follow the instructions to set up your user profile and application settings and continue from there!

# Heroku Toolbelt

If you've got a local copy of Reservations and want to deploy it to Heroku, here are the steps you'll need to follow to install and configure your new instance of the app!

### Initialize Heroku app
1. Make sure you've installed the [Heroku Toolbelt](https://toolbelt.heroku.com/)
2. Authenticate using your Heroku credentials

heroku login

3. From within the `reservations` directory, create your app

heroku create [APP_NAME]

(note that `APP_NAME` is optional)
4. Set the custom buildpack (see [here](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks#using-a-custom-buildpack) for more info)

heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/orenyk/heroku-buildpack-ruby

### Install add-ons
1. Install the postgresql add-on for your database

heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql

1. Install the mandrill add-on for e-mail

heroku addons:add mandrill

2. Install the scheduler add-on for cron jobs

heroku addons:add scheduler:standard

### Set config variables and cron jobs
For more information about the various configuration parameters, see [this page](https://github.com/YaleSTC/reservations/wiki/Configuration).

1. Generate all the secret keys / tokens

heroku config:set DEVISE_SECRET_KEY="$(bundle exec rake secret)" heroku config:set DEVISE_PEPPER="$(bundle exec rake secret)" heroku config:set SECRET_KEY_BASE="$(bundle exec rake secret)"

2. Configure the e-mail settings

heroku config:set RES_SMTP_DOMAIN=heroku.com heroku config:set RES_SMTP_ADDRESS=smtp.mandrillapp.com heroku config:set RES_SMTP_PORT=587 heroku config:set RES_SMTP_AUTH=1 heroku config:set RES_SMTP_USERNAME="$(heroku config:get MANDRILL_APIKEY)" heroku config:set RES_SMTP_PASSWORD="$(heroku config:get MANDRILL_USERNAME)"

3. Configure the hostname for e-mail links

heroku config:set RAILS_HOST_NAME=$(heroku info -s | grep web_url | cut -d/ -f3)

4. Enable static asset serving

heroku config:set SERVE_STATIC=1

5. Set up cron jobs through the Heroku website
1. Visit your application dashboard (`https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/[APP_NAME]/resources`)
2. Click on the scheduler add-on
  [![](http://yalestc.github.io/reservations/images/heroku/click_scheduler.png)](http://yalestc.github.io/reservations/images/heroku/click_scheduler.png)
3. Schedule hourly (`rake run_hourly_tasks`) and daily (`rake run_daily_tasks`) rake tasks
  [![](http://yalestc.github.io/reservations/images/heroku/configure_scheduler.png)](http://yalestc.github.io/reservations/images/heroku/configure_scheduler.png)
 * Note that these jobs will consume Heroku resources and can result in your application costing you money.
6. (Optional) Set up CAS authentication

heroku config:set CAS_AUTH=1 heroku config:set CAS_BASE_URL=https://[YOUR.CAS.URL]

### Push code to heroku

git push heroku [branch_name:]master

(note that you can push a different branch from `master` to Heroku, but you must push it to the `master` branch *on* Heroku)


### Initialize your application settings
1. Load the database schema

heroku run rake db:schema:load

2. Run the following command to go through the application setup script. Follow the prompts to set up your user account and the application settings

heroku run rake app:setup

3. (Optional) Seed your database with dummy data

rake db:seed

### Have fun!
* Visit our [documentation site](http://yalestc.github.io/reservations) for instructions on how to use your new app!