Any updates here? My slug doubled in size today when i removed gems;
now I can't launch my app.

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM, stephen murdoch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> yes Keenan, it's definitely my slug size that's creeping up (same
> problem others are having)
>
> I did some digging and this is what I found:
>
> According to the command-line output, my bundle is getting installed
> to `.bundle/gems`.
>
> I decided to try and vendor my gems to see if this would make a
> difference.
>
> Firstly, I downloaded the source for the compass gem and stuck in my
> vendor/gems directory.
> Then in Gemfile I pointed to the vendored version like so:
>
>   gem 'compass', :path => File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '/vendor/
> gems/compass')
>
> I ran bundler again and pushed to heroku and watched the gem install
> and the slug increase in size.
>
> Then I removed the gem from my vendor directory, bundled and pushed to
> heroku again, and this time, the slug size decreased!
>
> So a possible fix for this problem might be to just vendor all gems
> until it's sorted out.
>
> Can't say that i've tested this out thoroughly but will give it a shot
> tonight when I have time just to be certain.
>
> On Oct 12, 7:52 am, Keenan Brock <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> If you checked in a gem into git
>> Then you deleted the gem from git.
>> Git still has the gem.
>> It is not showing up for today, but git log will show when you added it and 
>> removed it.
>>
>> Guess I do not know if you are checking in your bundle dir and gems into git.
>>
>> 1. So are you saying your repo is 17mb, or your slug is 17mb?
>>
>> I'd imagine that the slug would be smaller on your change to the Gemfile.
>> But you stating that your slug is big suggests that maybe the .git directory 
>> is included in the slug?
>>
>> The slug size does affect the speed in which a dyno is started / compiles / 
>> restarts.
>> But I agree with Chris, I can't imagine it would slow it down too much.
>>
>> --Keenan
>> On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:48 AM, Chris Hanks wrote:
>>
>> > Yeah, this has happened to me before, too. I'm pretty sure the problem
>> > is on Heroku's end.
>>
>> > I don't worry that much about it, though, since the max slug size is
>> > 100 MB.
>>
>> > On Oct 11, 8:57 pm, stephen murdoch <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >> I have encountered a few strange problems with Heroku this evening.
>>
>> >> My repo size somehow managed to bloat to 17mb so I removed some gems
>> >> from my Gemfile (ran bundle install, git add Gemfile.lock etc etc) and
>> >> found that my repo was still 17mb.
>>
>> >> I removed all my gems (apart from rails and pg) and the repo didn't
>> >> get any smaller.  My app is no bigger than 2mb.
>>
>> >> So I deleted my app (along with my .git and .bundle directories) and
>> >> created everything from scratch.
>>
>> >> This seemed to fix the problem, until just now, when I tried to remove
>> >> 4 large gems from my Gemfile and didn't see any change in the size of
>> >> my compiled slug on Heroku.
>>
>> >> Is this something that other people are experiencing?
>>
>> >> FWIW, I've tried everything I can think of, including removing
>> >> Gemfile.lock, .bundle etc etc
>>
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