deploy-heroku.md

Deploying the Goof app to Heroku

Step-by-step tutorial

1. Sign-up to a free plan at heroku (https://www.heroku.com)

2. Install the heroku CLI. If you're on a macOS:

   brew install heroku/brew/heroku

3. Authenticate to Heroku and follow the instructions with the following command:

   heroku login

4. Change directories to the goof/ app repository you cloned/forked

5. Create a heroku app:

   heroku create

6. You'll have to update a Credit Card number at https://heroku.com/verify in order to enable the MongoDB addon next.

7. Add the MongoDB addon:

   heroku addons:create mongolab:sandbox

8. Push the Goof app to be deployed on the heroku platform

   git push heroku master

Trouble-shooting

• If you need to inspect the logs

heroku logs --tail

• If you need to manually restart the deployed app:

heroku ps:scale web=1