Re: free vs. paid heroku app performance

2010-08-27 Thread David
That's what we do, setting up site monitoring is part of my normal routine so I have something checking the site every 5 mins including staging. A couple free options: http://aremysitesup.com/ http://www.uptimerobot.com/ And when you're ready for the big time: http://pingdom.com/ (though I'll

Re: Backup for MongoHQ Data

2010-08-27 Thread marcel
There is a warning on the mongodb site about using mongoexport/ mongoimport: Neither JSON nor TSV/CSV can represent all data types. Please be careful not to lose or change data (types) when using this. For full fidelity please use mongodump.

Re: Ruby 1.9.2

2010-08-27 Thread morgoth
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Re: free vs. paid heroku app performance

2010-08-27 Thread marcel
Thanks for the helpful tips about keeping the app responsive. Has anyone else encountered ridiculously long slug compilation (several hours), or is it just me? Its happened on at least 4 days in the past month. I checked the heroku status page each time, but only one of the times coincided with

Re: free vs. paid heroku app performance

2010-08-27 Thread Stefan Wintermeyer
Am 27.08.2010 um 15:27 schrieb David: That's what we do, setting up site monitoring is part of my normal routine so I have something checking the site every 5 mins including staging. I think that might not be in the best interest of the Heroku guys. If they wanted it that way they'd have

Running custom executables in your app

2010-08-27 Thread Martin Solli
Hello I'd just like to share this with you guys, maybe it will come in handy for somebody someday. I have a rake task for importing data from an external source. The data includes geographic information that need to be converted using the proj command-line utility (http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/).

Problems deploying an EventMachine + Sinatra application

2010-08-27 Thread Jose M.
Hello! I am trying to deploy an EventMachine + Sinatra application. I am getting the next error when pushing the code: Launching...timed out ! App timed out during testfire. The previous version of your app is still

Re: Using resque-scheduler

2010-08-27 Thread malomalo
You should be able to fork, but you wouldn't want multiple schedulers so you'll be limited to 1 worker. You can setup another app that is another environment of your production app that only runs the scheduler. If you get resque:scheduler to run let me know. I've run it on heroku and it keeps

Heroku Console and Gems

2010-08-27 Thread Scott LaBounty
Should the gems that are in my .gems file be available to me in the Heroku console? Are they available from my rakefile? Thanks, -- Scott http://steamcode.blogspot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Heroku group. To post to this group, send

Re: Heroku Console and Gems

2010-08-27 Thread David Balatero
Not necessarily. .gems is deprecated IIRC, and only tells Heroku what to install. Your Rails app has to define gems in config/environment.rb w/ config.gem directives. Alternatively, switch to Bundler + Gemfile, and manage gems in one place. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Scott LaBounty

Re: Heroku Console and Gems

2010-08-27 Thread Scott LaBounty
Hmm... I'm not using Rails. If I do make the switch to Bundler/Gems would the gems be available via rake and the console? Scott On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:37 PM, David Balatero dbalat...@gmail.com wrote: Not necessarily. .gems is deprecated IIRC, and only tells Heroku what to install. Your

Re: Heroku Console and Gems

2010-08-27 Thread David Balatero
I believe so, as long as the Rakefile + your app loaded Bundler. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Scott LaBounty slabou...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm... I'm not using Rails. If I do make the switch to Bundler/Gems would the gems be available via rake and the console? Scott On Fri, Aug 27, 2010

Re: Heroku Console and Gems

2010-08-27 Thread Scott LaBounty
David, Thanks, I'll take a look at using Bundler. For those of you wondering, I'm still trying to get migrations to work from Sequel. I've grabbed a bit of code from sequel for migrations, put it into my rakefile, but it's still not working. It looks like the require 'sequel' doesn't happen (or

[ANN] new crashed process handling

2010-08-27 Thread Adam Wiggins
We've just rolled out a new version of our process manager, with streamlined handling of crashed processes. A lot of you guys have been frustrated when your workers crash (libXML segfaults, for example) because the restart behavior was somewhat unpredictable. The new version follows a very

Heroku database connection crash

2010-08-27 Thread Mike
I got this message in my Exceptional logs: PGError: server closed the connection unexpectedly\n\tThis probably means the server terminated abnormally\n\tbefore or while processing the request.\n: What could have caused this and how can I prevent it? -- You received this message because you are