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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"

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>name</key>
	<string>Andromeda</string>
	<key>settings</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>settings</key>

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Installing Nginx+Unicorn on Red Hat OpenShift

This set of scripts and config files will help you set up the awesome combination of Unicorn and Nginx as a server environment for Ruby web applications on Red Hat's OpenShift platform while I finish my cartridge.

Notes

• Before you get started, you should read my post on how to set up Ruby 1.9 environment on OpenShift here: http://goo.gl/ufI5G This will (hopefully) get you started on building a Rails app on OpenShift the unofficial way (for now!).

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(a gist based on the old toolmantim article on setting up remote repos)

To collaborate in a distributed development process you’ll need to push code to remotely accessible repositories.

This is somewhat of a follow-up to the previous article setting up a new rails app with git.

For the impatient

Set up the new bare repo on the server: