Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken on Heroku
Hi Evan, On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:40:08 -0400 Evan Hanson ev...@thunktastic.com wrote: A few days ago I put together a buildpack that allows one to run Chicken apps on Heroku; figured I'd share it here in case someone else finds it useful. A buildpack, for the tragically unhip, is just a handful of scripts to bootstrap an environment for a Heroku process. This one installs Chicken 4.7.0 and runs a standard chicken-install for your program -- apps can be written just like eggs, with setup- and meta-files per usual. Defining a default command to run once everything is installed is the only weird part; Heroku uses a file called a Procfile[1] to specify processes, which you can use to start e.g. an awful app on the correct port for the instance: web: awful --port=$PORT example.scm If no Procfile is present, the buildpack will try to run a file called `run.scm` in your application's root. This may or may not be a good default -- I'm open to suggestions. chickadee, pastiche and the handful of awful apps that I tried worked without any real configuration; there's an example in the README. The repository is located here: https://github.com/evhan/heroku-buildpack-chicken Hopefully this'll help someone get some hot Chicken-on-cloud action... [1]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile That's very neat. Thanks for doing that and sharing the howto. Best wishes. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken on Heroku
On Thursday, March 22, 2012, Evan Hanson wrote: A few days ago I put together a buildpack that allows one to run Chicken apps on Heroku; figured I'd share it here in case someone else finds it useful. Awesome! Thanks. -- Stephen -- -- Stephen *Kids these days.* *Whatever happened to hard work?* -- Joel Spolsky, The perils of javaschools ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
[Chicken-users] Chicken on Heroku
A few days ago I put together a buildpack that allows one to run Chicken apps on Heroku; figured I'd share it here in case someone else finds it useful. A buildpack, for the tragically unhip, is just a handful of scripts to bootstrap an environment for a Heroku process. This one installs Chicken 4.7.0 and runs a standard chicken-install for your program -- apps can be written just like eggs, with setup- and meta-files per usual. Defining a default command to run once everything is installed is the only weird part; Heroku uses a file called a Procfile[1] to specify processes, which you can use to start e.g. an awful app on the correct port for the instance: web: awful --port=$PORT example.scm If no Procfile is present, the buildpack will try to run a file called `run.scm` in your application's root. This may or may not be a good default -- I'm open to suggestions. chickadee, pastiche and the handful of awful apps that I tried worked without any real configuration; there's an example in the README. The repository is located here: https://github.com/evhan/heroku-buildpack-chicken Hopefully this'll help someone get some hot Chicken-on-cloud action... Cheers, Evan [1]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
