Not to bump this back up for the HOW but moreso for the why or "if".
Does anyone host a Radiant powered site on the free heroku plan without much pain? For certain clients of mine the jump from free to $36+ is too much. For me it's negligible but, I know the benefits of heroku. They don't necessarily get it. I don't want to deal with hosting stuff any more so pushing for heroku would be a big win. Thoughts? Thanks everyone - greatly appreciate it. - Joel On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Joel Oliveira <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone - > > Had a chance to finally get a new Radiant project set up on Heroku > tonight and it's pretty much straightforward with some help from > jsntv200's gist (thank you, sir!) - https://gist.github.com/2424787. > Set up my Gemfile as needed (with some cues from that gist, a > Procfile, and the one thing I've seen here and there - remove > config.ru. > > Before removing config.ru I wasn't seeing any of my (repo committed) > assets served. After removing it was good to go. For purposes of > oversharing, in short: > > heroku create --stack cedar > heroku rename mysite-staging > git push heroku master > heroku run rake db:migrate > heroku db:push > heroku restart > heroku logs --tail > > Big ups to you guys who shared all the great feedback > > - Joel > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:34 PM, john <[email protected]> wrote: > > cool. i'll try to duplicate your setup in the next couple of days (and > > update the wiki if you haven't got to it yet) > > > > > > On Thursday, April 19, 2012 6:23:40 PM UTC-5, jsntv200 wrote: > >> > >> Radiant runs fine on cedar. Here's a site Im currently building on the > >> cedar stack : > >> > >> http://queminhluu-staging.herokuapp.com/ > >> > >> But there are a few gotcha's with the Gemfile, you'll also need to add > >> a Procfile and delete the config.ru (breaks compass for some reason I > >> think). > >> > >> Here's a gist : > >> > >> https://gist.github.com/2424787 > >> > >> Locally I generally run without the production group : > >> > >> $ bundle install --without production > >> > >> I haven't included any extensions in the Gemfile but if you want to > >> use Heroku's memcache add-on with Radiant then a simple extension I > >> created seems to do the trick, just add it to the production group : > >> > >> gem "radiant-heroku_dalli-extension", "~> 1.0.0" > >> > >> Cedar also removed the Varnish caching layer but I've been getting > >> pretty good results out of Cloud Flare [https://www.cloudflare.com/] > >> > >> cheers > >> jt > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Apr 20, 8:22 am, John Moroney <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Jim, > >> > > >> > bundle update returns radiant (1.0.1) in the gemfile.lock, which > crashes > >> > the app on heroku > >> > radiant seems to like only the bamboo stack, if that is important > >> > > >> > I'm currently having a beast of a time getting Radiant to find the js > >> > and image files. They are not being pointed to correctly in the admin > >> > interface, though the call is identical to the local copy. > >> > > >> > i would very much like to help in any way I can to simplify the > >> > radiant/heroku process. My biggest hurdle has always been getting all > the > >> > necessary information in one source, and then getting current > information. > >> > > >> > John > >> > > >> > On Apr 19, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Jim Gay wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > I definitely want to support Heroku easily. > >> > > Any bug reports or code you can provide would be really helpful. > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Bruce Davison > >> > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I Deploy to Bamboo for Radiant. I only use Cedar for Rails 3. Also > >> > >> Heroku > >> > >> doesn't use Sqlite3 it uses Postgresql. If you are using taps to > push > >> > >> your > >> > >> db it creates a Postgresql database > >> > >> Hope that helps > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Bruce Davison > >> > >> Sent with Sparrow > >> > > >> > >> On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 11:52 AM, John Moroney wrote: > >> > > >> > >> It was that I deployed to the cedar stack, mostly. On cedar, it > would > >> > >> not > >> > >> resolve sqlite3, saying it was either missing or needed a > sqlite3.h. > >> > >> I also > >> > >> had to change the gemfile.lock from radiant (1.0.1) to radiant > >> > >> (1.0.0) for > >> > >> the app to fire. I'm still showing some unresolved dependencies > which > >> > >> I'm > >> > >> trying to run down, and now my admin/content is css-less. > >> > > >> > >> And only on Heroku. > >> > > >> > >> Locally? Brilliant as ever. > >> > > >> > >> For the record, thanks for Radiant. I've been using it since > >> > >> 2006-2007. > >> > > >> > >> John Moroney > >> > > >> > >> On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:01 PM, john wrote: > >> > > >> > >> what exactly is the problem with heroku? > >> > > >> > >> On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:52:03 PM UTC-5, John Moroney wrote: > >> > > >> > >> I usually deploy to Heroku, but can someone suggest a more > >> > >> Radiant-friendly > >> > >> server? It's the deployment which seems to be the bottleneck, even > >> > >> after the > >> > >> experience of many installs. > >> > > >> > >> Heroku has many advantages, one of which is being free for > >> > >> micro-scale sites > >> > >> and blogs. Are there low-priced, Rails-friendly servers that are > >> > >> still in > >> > >> the Ruby/Rails community? > >> > > >> > > -- > >> > > Write intention revealing code #=>http://www.clean-ruby.com > >> > > >> > > Jim Gay > >> > > Saturn Flyer LLC > >> > > 571-403-0338 >
