An example API app using Grape

Deploying

Locally

$ bundle install
$ foreman start

On Heroku

$ heroku create

Add a MongoDB service; its configured to support MongoLab or MongoHQ, but you can easily add support for another provider in config/initializers/db.rb

$ heroku addons:add mongohq

Or:

$ heroku addons:add mongolab

Then deploy:

$ git push heroku master

If you want to test everything is working you can seed with test data:

$ heroku run bundle exec rake seed
$ http GET http://appnae.herokuapp.com/notes/1 X-Token:TestKey 

And you should get back:

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Connection: keep-alive
    Content-Length: 48
    Content-Type: application/json

    {
        "notes": [
            {
                "id": "1", 
                "title": "Jogging in park"
            }
        ]
    }

Just make sure to remove the test key afterwards:

$ bundle exec unseed

Note: Unseed will destroy all data!

On Dokku

First setup MongoDB:

$ git clone https://github.com/jeffutter/dokku-mongodb-plugin.git /var/lib/dokku/plugins/mongodb
$ dokku plugins-install

Then just add your Dokku remote and push.

Tests

Rspec

$ bundle exec rake seed RACK_ENV=test
$ bundle exec rspec

Dredd

$ bundle exec rake seed 
$ foreman start
$ dredd -h "X-Token: TestKey" apiary.apib http://localhost:9292

Note: You have to seed before every Dredd test as Dredd will delete sample data it needs for tests to pass.