A Sinatra template for Heroku (and heroku-docker!) with some extra goodies included.

This repository rips takes a page out of Heroku's book of "getting started" repositories; it provides a scaffold for a Sinatra app that you can run out of the box with standard Heroku tools. Heroku provides a couple of fantastic starting points for a variety of platforms on GitHub, including a Rails app. This is just a Sinatra variation on the theme.

caveat emptor: This repository includes a bunch of tools that I personally find useful. You probably have opinions of your own, and you may not want them!

• RSpec for behavior-driven design
• Pry for a better REPL
• Guard for filesystem-aware automation (in this case, of test running)

Heroku's heroku-docker plugin is a fantastic way to get the best of both worlds: easy local development with Docker and (almost) foolproof production on Heroku. All you need to start is the Heroku Toolbelt.

Make sure the plugin is installed:

heroku plugins:install heroku-docker

Configure Docker and Docker Compose:

heroku docker:init

And run the app locally:

docker-compose up web

The app will now be available on the Docker daemon IP on port 8080.

To run one-off commands, ie. database migrations or and other rake tasks, you can open a shell instead of a web worker:

docker-compose run shell
# bundle exec rake -T

You can also use Docker to release to Heroku:

heroku create
heroku docker:release
heroku open

Contributions are always welcome. Submit a pull request or send me an email with suggestions.

This project is released under the MIT license.

Jordan Ryan Reuter (mailto:[email protected])