Instapusher

Makes it easy to push to heroku.

Installation

gem install instapusher

Setting up account

• Login at instapusher.com .
• Execute instapusher --api-key on local machine .

Usage

In order to deploy your code first make sure that you are in the branch that you want to deploy. Then execute this command.

instapusher

It detects project name and a branch from the git repo and starts deploying your project.

Running background jobs and other rake tasks

Instapusher does not create workers on heroku for your project. Background jobs or rake tasks should be run manually from the console.

heroku run rake <TASK_NAME> --app <APP_NAME_GIVEN_BY_INSTAPUSHER>

For eg. to run delayed job workers

heroku run rake jobs:work --app my-awesome-app-42-add-devise-authentication-ip

Setup Instapusher server

You can provide the env variable LOCAL like:

instapusher --local

To enable debug messages do

instapusher --debug

Pass host info like this

INSTAPUSHER_HOST=instapusher.com instapusher

Also there are other env variables like INSTAPUSHER_PROJECT and INSTAPUSHER_BRANCH.

INSTAPUSHER_HOST=instapusher.com INSTAPUSHER_PROJECT=rails INSTAPUSHER_BRANCH=master instapusher

ALSO you can pass your api_key

API_KEY=xxxx instapusher

What problem it solves

Here at BigBinary we create a separate branch for each feature we work on. Let's say that I am working on authentication with facebook. When I am done with the feature then I send pull request to my team members to review. However in order to review the work all the team members need to pull down the branch and fire up rails server and then review.

We like to see things working. So we developed instapusher to push a feature branch to heroku instantly with one command. Executing instapusher prints a url and we put that url in the pull request so that team members can actually test the feature.

Here is how it works

A video is coming up.

License

instapusher is released under MIT License.