How to publish a Ruby on Rails Project to Heroku

I write this article to show the steps can be used to deploy your rails application into server. For this I am using Heroku.

What is Heroku ?

Heroku is a cloud platform that lets companies build, deliver, monitor and scale apps.

What is Heroku | Heroku

Check the above link to see more about this platform.

1. Create a Heroku account

Use the following link to sign up

Heroku | Sign up

Image 1 — Sign up page

2. Login to your account through terminal

heroku login

Image 2 — Login to heroku using the terminal

3. Create the project on Heroku

heroku create app-name

Image 3 — Creating the project

4. Push the Project to Heroku

git push heroku master

Image 4 — Pushing the project to heroku

Image 5 — Complete terminal log after pushing

5. Add the database

To add the database please follow the following steps mention in the link

Getting Started on Heroku with Ruby | Heroku Dev Center

All Done !

notes

If you want to see all the apps you have created

heroku apps

If you need to delete any app created

heroky apps:destroy [name] --confirm [retype_name]