Ruby on Rails Tutorial - Heroku API Deployment

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Setup#

This tutorial requires that you've already installed

• ruby
• rails

Create a new rails project

rails new dogs --api -d postgresql

cd into the dogs folder

Configuring your Database#

Assuming you have a local postgres server make sure you write your database.yml like so. Make sure the username and password matches your local postgres user.

default: &default
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  pool: <%= ENV.fetch("RAILS_MAX_THREADS") { 5 } %>
  # Make sure the below reflects your local postgres user
  port: 5432
  host: localhost
  username: test5
  password: test5

development:
  <<: *default
  database: mice_development

test:
  <<: *default
  database: mice_test

production:
  <<: *default
  url: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %>

Uncomment gem 'rack-cors' in your gemfile then run bundle install

Edit your config/initializers/cors.rb to look like so. This will allow all origins to make request, customize to your liking.

Rails.application.config.middleware.insert_before 0, Rack::Cors do
  allow do
    origins '*'

    resource '*',
      headers: :any,
      methods: [:get, :post, :put, :patch, :delete, :options, :head]
  end
end

Create a quick API#

Run the following commands for a basic dogs api...

rails g scaffold dog name:string age:integer breed:string

rails db:create

rails db:migrate

Add the following in db/seeds.rb

Dog.create(name: "Sparky", age: 5, breed: "Bulldog")
Dog.create(name: "Spot", age: 5, breed: "Dalmation")
Dog.create(name: "Goldy", age: 5, breed: "Golden Retriever")

run the command rails db:seed

Test the Api#

rails server

Go to localhost:3000/dogs to see if our dogs are there, if so we are ready to deploy.

Deploy to Heroku#

• push your code to github (make sure the root of the repo is the same folder as the gemfile)
• create a new heroku project and connect it to your github repo
• using the heroku cli run the following commands

heroku run rails db:migrate --app=youAppName && heroku run rails db:seed --app=youAppName *make sure to replace yourAppName with the name of your heroku project

NOTE If you run into a weird deployment error about your bundler platform, refer to this stack overflow for a solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43429685/how-can-i-resolve-your-bundle-only-supports-platforms-x86-mingw32-but-your

That's it, go to https://HEROKUURL/dogs

and you should see your dogs!!!