What is Heroku server and Why that does provide free deployment?

Today We are going learn How to deploy rails Application free In Heroku In the above topic we will cover  below points

1. Create a Simple rails Application
2. Deploy rails application in Heroku
3. Customize domain name in Heroku.
4. Add your own domain name in Heroku for free.

 

Create a rails application for Heroku deployment

Create a new Rails application in this directory, replacing sample-heroku-app with whatever you would like to call your app:

rails new sample-heroku-app -d=postgresql

The -d=postgresql option sets PostgreSQL as the database.

Next step go inside the application directory

cd sample-heroku-app

Configure the database.yml to add password and username for development purpose

Congratulation Now you all completed the first step(You can check rails application locally)

rails s

Deploy rails application in Heroku:

You need to first register in Heroku application Heroku Signup link

after successful signup, you just need to follow below steps to deploy into Heroku

heroku login -i

 

email: [email protected]

 

password: sample234

After successful login you need to run below command one by one

git init

git add .

git commit -m "Intial commit"

git push heroku master

If you want to access your rails application free you just need to run below command to see your application running on Heroku 

heroku open

You can see the next blog to customize the domain of Heroku Add customised domain in Heroku part 2