Run Dashing Rails on Heroku

Setting Dashing-rails on Heroku is pretty simple:

1. Create a new app:

    heroku apps:create example
   

2. Add RedisToGo addon to heroku's app:

    heroku addons:add redistogo
   

3. Add PostgresSQL addon to heroku's app (this is up to you):

    heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev
   

4. Add puma to your Gemfile:

    gem 'puma'
   

5. Create a new Procfile for you application:

    web: bundle exec puma -p $PORT -e $RACK_ENV -t 0:5
   

6. Tell Dashing-rails how to you the Heroku's redis connection by setting redis credentials in config/initializers/dashing.rb:

    config.redis_host     = URI.parse(ENV["REDISTOGO_URL"]).host
    config.redis_port     = URI.parse(ENV["REDISTOGO_URL"]).port
    config.redis_password = URI.parse(ENV["REDISTOGO_URL"]).password
   

7. Commit and Push to heroku:

    git commit -m "configure dashing to work on heroku"
    git push heroku master
   

8. That's it! Visit http://your_app.herokuapp.com/dashing/dashboards

You can checkout the following application on Github running on Heroku

puma -t 0:5 lets you configure the number of threads you want puma to run on.