heroku-able

[jeremiak]

To run on Heroku, you'll want two files for python apps:

1. Procfile (required for all Heroku apps regardless of language/framework)
2. requirements.txt

Procfile is your process file and tells Heroku what you want it to do. In this case it is telling Heroku that for the web instances you want it to simply run python hello.py which is what you do to get the app going locally

requirements.txt tells Heroku (and any other user) what dependencies you want loaded to make the app run properly. It is really easy to generate from within your virtual environment. You simply run pip freeze > requirements.txt in the project directory.

Protip: To install the requirements from a requirements.txt file you'll just use pip install -r requirements.txt and it will run through the file and install the dependencies.

[jeremiak]

Doesn't actually run on Heroku - should've checked that out. Will open a new one with the right code ><

[jeremiak]

Looks like getting Shapely (well actually the GEOS library it depends on) to run on Heroku is a bit harder than I thought :/

This is all I can really find to go off: https://twitter.com/JCSanford/status/281540051203141632

[jeremiak]

https://github.com/codeforamerica/heroku-buildpack-pygeo <-- the good shit

[jeremiak]

You can see the app running on Heroku atm here: http://frozen-journey-1467.herokuapp.com/

[lyzidiamond]

THANKS FOR AWESOME