Announcing Nonschema Migrations — NOW FOR RAILS 6!
Nonschema migrations version 5.0.0: RubyGems Page, GitHub page Now compatible with Rails 6, nonschema_migrations is the best way to separate your schema changes from your...
Heroku with a SSL/TLS purchased from SSLRenewals – BYO Instructions
Buy yourself a "RapidSSL Certificate" at SSL Renewals. After you place your order, they may not send you an email, so log in and go to...
Amazon RDS on Heroku Still Works
Although Heroku has put a lot of attention into their own Postgres-based datbase architecture, Heroku Data, this article still works for rebels who want to...
The Five Secret Heroku Slug Cleaning Commands
This is to fix build, slug, and caching problems related to asset compilation during slug compilation. Everyone needs a little spring cleaning, right? No, really....
How to get your Heroku app to optimize your images for you automagically using Paperclip, image_optim and special buildpacks
Site speed can be said to be the number one issue facing web developers today. Whether it's this KISS Metrics block post, another KISS Metrics...
How to trim down your Heroku Slug
First you need to know how to connect to your Heroku application using bash. You can then use the du -h command to get a...
Heroku Why Oh Why?!?
Heroku you now have SIX different versions of top-level navigation across your website(s) Who in the world told you that was a good idea?
How can I create an inline WYSIWYG editor where I can attach Images to the content I’m editing?
[This is an excerpt from an email I answered on the Rails-Talk list today] That's actually pretty hard, but with a bit of work you...
Pushing to Heroku
What you may miss off-the-bat is that Heroku's copy of your app is actually a git repository. It's like github's repository of your code, but...
Heroku requires Postgresql, gem ‘pg’
Ran into an annoying chicken/egg involving deploying to Heroku with a shared database. It seems that Heroku isn't happy unless you have gem 'pg' in...