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convert your app from ITP to heroku
Create an account on heroku
Download your app from itp.nyu.edu
Cleanup config.ru
put everything in public
Install the heroku gem
- launch Terminal
- install heroku gem:
sudo gem install heroku
(type your computer's password)
Create the heroku project
- add you gems to the .gems file
- create a file called .gems in your project folder
- add these lines to it:
sinatra
dm-core
dm-yaml-adapter
plus any other gems you're using in your project
- make your config.ru file look like this:
require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require './app.rb'
run Sinatra::Application
- change all your urls to be the right thing, i.e. no itp.nyu.edu in them, etc.
- turn our project into a git repository
git init
git add .
git commit -am "initial commit"
heroku create <name-of-project>
git push heroku master
look at your app in the browser
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