Ruby and Rails Development

Steps for fun is a web application that lets you track the number of steps you take each day. In today's health conscience world, there is a movement for people to be more active. One way is to walk more. It recommended that we should walk 10,000 steps a day.

stepsforfun.com is a web based log where you can log the number of steps you took on a given day.

It has budding social network capability which lets you see how well your friends are doing.

So check it out and let me know what you think.

I wrote this blog software in Ruby on Rails and deployed it to Heroku.

This is by far the easiest way to do ROR. At least from a deployment standpoint. Heroku makes this idiot proof. Believe me when I say that if I can do it, anyone can.

As I develop more applications, I will report here on my trials and tribulations working with ROR and Heroku. So far, Heroku appears to take the pain out of deployment. Hopefully, it will be around for a long time.

These are my simple steps to deploy an application written in Ruby on Rails to Heroku.

1. mkdir projects
2. cd projects
3. rails blog -d postgresql
4. cd blog
5. git init && git add . && git commit -m "first commit"
6. heroku create - Then develop your app.
7. git push heroku master
8. heroku rake db:migrate
9. heroku open
10. git rm -r -f log
11. git rm -r -f tmp
12. mkdir log
13. echo '*.log' > log/.gitignore
14. git add log
15. echo tmp >> .gitignore
16. git add .gitignore
17. git commit -m "ignore log files and tmp dir"
18. createdb blog_development
19. createdb blog_test
20. createdb blog_production
21. git add .
22. git status # To see what needs to be added and committed.
23. git commit -m "added locations"
24. git push heroku master # Push the latest to heroku
25. heroku rake db:migrate

I'm not sure why but when I did my last updates to remove some un-needed files from the git repo, git wanted me to use this command:

git commit -a -m "Some comment"

I'll have to research why this was so.