Deploying Ember On Rails To Heroku

Working with the ember-rails gem and Heroku require some application settings that aren’t immediately intuative.

For ember-rails, you need to tell Rails which variant of ember to use. This is done in your application config.

# config/application.rb

Sample::Application.configure do
  # ember-rails requires this setting in the Rails application.
  config.ember.variant = :production
end

Heroku doesn’t play nice with the default Rails asset pipeline settings. You’ll need to configure your Rails app to serve up the assets in production.

# config/environments/production.rb

Sample::Application.configure do
  # Defaults to false. Heroku needs to serve the assets,
  # as there is no file system in Heroku.
  config.serve_static_assets = true
end

Also, in config/environments/development.rb you can set ember to use the development variant.

# config/environments/development.rb

Sample::Application.configure do
  config.ember.variant = :development
end

And with that, deployment is as easy as git push heroku master.

Published: 2013-06-20

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