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Installing a Gem on Heroku from a Private GitHub Repo

Sometimes you want to use a gem on Heroku that is in a private repository on GitHub.

Using git over http you can authenticate to GitHub using basic authentication. However, we don't want to embed usernames and passwords in Gemfiles. Instead, we can use authentication tokens.

1. Get an OAuth Token from GitHub

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First you will need to get an OAuth Token from GitHub using your own username and "note"

andflett

module Cartography

  extend self

  # Takes OSGB36 Easting/Northing coords 
  # and returns WGS84 Latitude and Longitude
  def en_to_ll(easting, northing)
    @OSGB36_ll = to_OSGB36(easting, northing)
    to_WGS84(@OSGB36_ll[:latitude], @OSGB36_ll[:longitude])
  end