Deploy brunch to heroku

app.coffee

console.log "app node file", process.cwd()

mongoose = require 'mongoose'
express = require 'express'

app = express()

app.configure ->
  app.use express.static(__dirname + '/public')
  app.use express.bodyParser()

require('./app_routes')(app)

mongoUri = process.env.MONGOHQ_URL || 'mongodb://localhost/airpair_dev'
mongoose.connect mongoUri

db = mongoose.connection
db.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'connection error:'))
db.once 'open', ->
  console.log 'connected to db'

exports.startServer = (port, path, callback) ->
  p = process.env.PORT || port
  console.log "startServer on port: #{p}, path #{path}"
  app.listen p

isHeroku = process.env.MONGOHQ_URL?
if isHeroku
  exports.startServer()

config-release.coffee

{config} = require './config'

config.server.port = 5000

config.files.javascripts.joinTo =
  # note removed test files from the release build
  'test/javascripts/test.js': /^test(\/|\\)(?!vendor)/
  'test/javascripts/test-vendor.js': /^test(\/|\\)(?=vendor)/

exports.config = config

config.coffee

# See docs at http://brunch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config.html.

exports.config =

  server:
    path: 'app.coffee', port: 3333, base: '/', run: yes

  files:

    javascripts:
      joinTo:
       'javascripts/app.js': /^app/
       'javascripts/vendor.js': /^vendor/
       'test/javascripts/test.js': /^test(\/|\\)(?!vendor)/
       'test/javascripts/test-vendor.js': /^test(\/|\\)(?=vendor)/
      order:
        # Files in `vendor` directories are compiled before other files
        # even if they aren't specified in order.
        before: [
          'vendor/scripts/jquery.js'
          'vendor/scripts/lodash.js'
          'vendor/scripts/backbone.js'
        ]

    stylesheets:
      joinTo:
        'stylesheets/app.css': /^(app|vendor)/
        'test/stylesheets/test.css': /^test/
      order:
        before: [
          'vendor/styles/normalize.css',
          'vendor/styles/bootstrap.css'
        ]
        after: ['vendor/styles/helpers.css']

    templates:
      joinTo: 'javascripts/app.js'

package.json

{
  "author": "Jonathon Kresner",
  "name": "airpair.com",
  "description": "site hosted at airpair.com",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "homepage": "http://airpair.com/",
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": ""
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": "0.8.x",
    "npm": "1.1.x"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "brunch build -c config-release.coffee"
  },
  "dependencies": {},
}

Procfile

web: ./node_modules/.bin/coffee app.coffee

in app.coffee, I do this, instead, and it works for anything that requires vs runs directly:

if require.main is module
    exports.startServer()