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Created October 20, 2014 23:41
A Beginners Guide to Deploying a Rails App on Heroku

Deploying to Heroku

This guide is for a first-time Rails developer to deploy their app to Heroku, a popular web-hosting service with strong Rails support. This guide assumes you already have a Heroku account and have installed the Heroku Toolbelt.

Create Your App and Setup Heroku with Git

  1. Make sure you've setup an SSH key for Heroku. Follow this simple guide to create an SSH key and send it to Heroku if needed: Heroku: Managing Your SSH Keys
  2. Navigate into the folder for your Rails app.