Required:

1. Install ImageMagick

brew install ImageMagick

2. Install figaro

bundle exec figaro install

3. Add the following env vars, creating a new access key from Amazon AWS IAM for the blog's dev user:

# config/application.yml
development:
 S3_BUCKET_NAME:
 AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:
 AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:

production:
 S3_BUCKET_NAME:
 AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:
 AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:

When returning after a long time or on a new system, some typical issues:

1. Reinstalling ruby rvm install ruby-3
2. brew install postgresql to debug pg gem issues
3. Download the pgadmin gui and get the db login+passwords sorted locally

rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed      // if you want sample data locally
rails s         

When updating gems, well... good luck.

To deploy once ready:

heroku login  // just once, obviously
git remote add heroku https://git.heroku.com/eriktrautman.git
git push heroku master