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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 data changes. Want to run no-downtime deploys with data-only migrations? No problem. Install it in your Rails app today to see...
Read MoreBuy 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 "Orders" and look for the "Generate" button You must have access to admin@ your domain to proceed. They will send...
Read MoreAlthough 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 use Amazon RDS on Heroku: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/amazon-rds Note that I can't seem to get "sslca" to work as a config option in my...
Read MoreThis is to fix build, slug, and caching problems related to asset compilation during slug compilation. Everyone needs a little spring cleaning, right? No, really. Sometimes when I switch around buildpacks or change up assets I run into a strange asset cache problem. Here's the...
Read MoreSite 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 block post, study after study show that delivering your content fast, fast, fast is make-or-break factor in today's web economony. That's...
Read MoreFirst you need to know how to connect to your Heroku application using bash. You can then use the du -h command to get a read on how big the files inside your slug are. heroku run bash -a yourappname Once you've done that, here's the magic...
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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? ...
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[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 will be able to pull that off. You have two basic strategies: 1) Make the user upload the image file somewhere else (like...
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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 it is used for the special purpose of deploying the app. When you do a deploy to Heroku, you are...
Read MoreRan 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 your Gemfile. If you are using the shared database and fail to have gem ‘pg’ in your Gemfile, you app actually deploys OK on Heroku but then generates an Application Error when you call a page. If you check the heroku logs you see something like this: