The document outlines the use of Heroku for easy deployment of Ruby-based applications, highlighting its advantages such as scalability and integration of third-party services. It also discusses the gem management tools Jeweler and Gemcutter, emphasizing their role in simplifying gem creation and management. Additionally, the document compares Heroku with Amazon EC2, noting differences in control and resource management.

1. Heroku
Jeweler + Gemcutter
All Ruby Goodness
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http://slideshare.net/ariejan/heroku-jeweler-gemcutter

2. What the ...?

3. What the ...?
Rails deployment with Heroku

4. What the ...?
Rails deployment with Heroku
Creating gems with Jeweler and Gemcutter

5. Heroku

6. What’s Heroku?

7. What’s Heroku?
Easy deployment of Ruby-based apps

8. What’s Heroku?
Easy deployment of Ruby-based apps
Hosted in the Amazon EC2 Cloud

9. What’s Heroku?
Easy deployment of Ruby-based apps
Hosted in the Amazon EC2 Cloud
Offering of easy to integrate third-party services

10. What’s Heroku?
Easy deployment of Ruby-based apps
Hosted in the Amazon EC2 Cloud
Offering of easy to integrate third-party services
Pay as you go

11. What’s Heroku?
Easy deployment of Ruby-based apps
Hosted in the Amazon EC2 Cloud
Offering of easy to integrate third-party services
Pay as you go
Scales!

12. What’s Heroku?
Easy deployment of Ruby-based apps
Hosted in the Amazon EC2 Cloud
Offering of easy to integrate third-party services
Pay as you go
Scales!
Hosts 42k apps! Including Shopify

13. “Problems”

14. “Problems”
You don’t have root access

15. “Problems”
You don’t have root access
Your app lives in the cloud.

16. “Problems”
You don’t have root access
Your app lives in the cloud.
You need Heroku to pull your data out

17. “Problems”
You don’t have root access
Your app lives in the cloud.
You need Heroku to pull your data out
You have no direct database access

18. “Problems”
You don’t have root access
Your app lives in the cloud.
You need Heroku to pull your data out
You have no direct database access
You have limited access to logs (heroku logs)

19. Amazon EC2 vs. Heroku

20. Amazon EC2 vs. Heroku
Hardware as a Service vs. Platform as a Service

21. Amazon EC2 vs. Heroku
Hardware as a Service vs. Platform as a Service
Ruby Oriented

22. Amazon EC2 vs. Heroku
Hardware as a Service vs. Platform as a Service
Ruby Oriented
No hardware knowledge required

23. Amazon EC2 vs. Heroku
Hardware as a Service vs. Platform as a Service
Ruby Oriented
No hardware knowledge required
Limiting in choice for third party tools

24. Heroku vs. Kabisa Hosting

25. Heroku vs. Kabisa Hosting
Heroku scales with a few clicks

26. Heroku vs. Kabisa Hosting
Heroku scales with a few clicks
Easy deployment, including gem dependencies

27. Heroku vs. Kabisa Hosting
Heroku scales with a few clicks
Easy deployment, including gem dependencies
Pay as you go - only pay for the resources you use

28. Heroku vs. Kabisa Hosting
Heroku scales with a few clicks
Easy deployment, including gem dependencies
Pay as you go - only pay for the resources you use
No hardware to maintain or worry about

29. Heroku vs. Kabisa Hosting
Heroku scales with a few clicks
Easy deployment, including gem dependencies
Pay as you go - only pay for the resources you use
No hardware to maintain or worry about
Less control over hardware and software choices

30. Heroku vs. Kabisa Hosting
Heroku scales with a few clicks
Easy deployment, including gem dependencies
Pay as you go - only pay for the resources you use
No hardware to maintain or worry about
Less control over hardware and software choices
It’s not hosted in Eindhoven (latency)

31. Give Heroku a Spin!

32. Ingredients

33. Ingredients
A Heroku account (you did read the email,
right?)

34. Ingredients
A Heroku account (you did read the email,
right?)
A sample rails app

35. Ingredients
A Heroku account (you did read the email,
right?)
A sample rails app
An open terminal

36. First, a local blog!

37. First, a local blog!
Get a rails app working locally

38. First, a local blog!
Get a rails app working locally
gem install faker

39. First, a local blog!
Get a rails app working locally
gem install faker
git clone
git://github.com/ariejan/kks-heroku.git

40. First, a local blog!
Get a rails app working locally
gem install faker
git clone
git://github.com/ariejan/kks-heroku.git
rake db:migrate && rake db:seed

41. First, a local blog!
Get a rails app working locally
gem install faker
git clone
git://github.com/ariejan/kks-heroku.git
rake db:migrate && rake db:seed
script/server

42. Second, deploy to Heroku

43. Second, deploy to Heroku
Deploying is easy. No capistrano required!

44. Second, deploy to Heroku
Deploying is easy. No capistrano required!
gem install heroku

45. Second, deploy to Heroku
Deploying is easy. No capistrano required!
gem install heroku
heroku create <appname>

46. Second, deploy to Heroku
Deploying is easy. No capistrano required!
gem install heroku
heroku create <appname>
git push heroku master

47. Second, deploy to Heroku
Deploying is easy. No capistrano required!
gem install heroku
heroku create <appname>
git push heroku master
heroku open

48. Push your development data

49. Push your development data
Easily push data into your production app

50. Push your development data
Easily push data into your production app
heroku db:push

51. Push your development data
Easily push data into your production app
heroku db:push
heroku open

52. Push your development data
Easily push data into your production app
heroku db:push
heroku open
You can also do pull production data

53. Push your development data
Easily push data into your production app
heroku db:push
heroku open
You can also do pull production data
heroku db:pull

54. Getting Info

55. Getting Info
heroku info

56. Backups? No, bundles!

57. Backups? No, bundles!
Include app and database dump

58. Backups? No, bundles!
Include app and database dump
heroku addons:add bundles:single

59. Backups? No, bundles!
Include app and database dump
heroku addons:add bundles:single
heroku bundles:capture

60. Backups? No, bundles!
Include app and database dump
heroku addons:add bundles:single
heroku bundles:capture
heroku bundles:download <bundle>

61. Caveats

62. Caveats
Gem dependencies

63. Caveats
Gem dependencies
PostgreSQL (is not MySQL)

64. Caveats
Gem dependencies
PostgreSQL (is not MySQL)
File uploads

65. Jeweler & Gemcutter

66. Jeweler

67. Jeweler
Easily create and manage your gem

68. Jeweler
Easily create and manage your gem
Make it easy to release your gem to Gemcutter

69. Jeweler
Easily create and manage your gem
Make it easy to release your gem to Gemcutter
Manage code on github

70. Let’s make a kks-gem!

71. Let’s make a kks-gem!
jeweler --rspec --gemcutter --create-repo
downcaser

72. Let’s make a kks-gem!
jeweler --rspec --gemcutter --create-repo
downcaser
Edit Rakefile to suit your needs

73. Let’s make a kks-gem!
jeweler --rspec --gemcutter --create-repo
downcaser
Edit Rakefile to suit your needs
Write specs, write code, commit

74. Release version 0.0.1

75. Release version 0.0.1
rake version:write

76. Release version 0.0.1
rake version:write
rake version:bump:patch

77. Release version 0.0.1
rake version:write
rake version:bump:patch
rake gemcutter:release

78. Release version 0.0.1
rake version:write
rake version:bump:patch
rake gemcutter:release
gem install downcaser

79. Why Jeweler

80. Why Jeweler
Makes your life easy

81. Why Jeweler
Makes your life easy
Focus on writing the gem, not managing it

82. Why Jeweler
Makes your life easy
Focus on writing the gem, not managing it
Easily release a gem to Gemcutter

83. Why Gemcutter?

84. Why Gemcutter?
It’s (or will be) the default gem source

85. Why Gemcutter?
It’s (or will be) the default gem source
Supported by the Ruby community (including
RubyForge)

86. Q&A