Heroku Python Skeleton

This repository has all the base files ready for deploying a Heroku application, including a simple database model managed with flask-sqlalchemy.

Usage

Initial

$ git clone https://github.com/yuvadm/heroku-python-skeleton.git
$ cd heroku-python-skeleton
$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master

Database

$ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev
$ heroku run python

and in the Python REPL:

>>> from app import db
>>> db.create_all()

For a detailed introduction see http://blog.y3xz.com/blog/2012/08/16/flask-and-postgresql-on-heroku/.