Deploying to Heroku

These are my initial notes on making BrowserCMS work on Heroku, which is intended for release in v3.5.0

Create the project using sqlite (there are issues generating with -d postgresql syntax).

1. Disable Caching

This will avoid the issue where files are written out and stops the cms subdomain redirects.

# config/environments/production.rb
config.action_controller.perform_caching = false

2. Configure Postgresql in production

# Gemfile
gem 'sqlite3', :group=>:development
gem 'pg', :group=>:production

# config/database.yml
production:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: heroku_app_production
  pool: 5
  username: heroku_app_user
  password: heroku_app_pw

References:

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3
• Mailing List Discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/browsercms/WCFUn82wJeg
• Sample Gemfile Gist: https://gist.github.com/1878874
• RefineryCMS's Heroku Guide: http://refinerycms.com/guides/heroku
• Heroku S3 Guide: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/s3
• Paperclip and S3: http://webtempest.com/how-to-allow-image-uploads-in-rails-on-heroku/