Comments on: Hosting a Spree webshop on Heroku

By: ashnyc

ashnyc — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:21:48 +0000

hi there, thanks for this post. I am not a programer but would like to have my own site with spree on heroku.
I am having trouble getting started on Heroku. the main reason i am using Heroku, is because i like spree. can you help me with a step by step on how to load spree on heroku. I have a mac.
I have done a lot of php stuff, i have a few website but never on heroku.
thanks
ash

By: Damian ONeill

Damian ONeill — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:27:09 +0000

Hi Casper, thanks for the post. Can you clarify is this still the standard way of deploying spree on heroku?

By: Casper Fabricius

Casper Fabricius — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:18:18 +0000

Well, I’m pretty sure it works just like plugins: By default, all extensions are loaded alphabetically, and if you want it any other way you must specify the extensions you want to load in the config.

So, and I have not tested this, you could probably put something like this in your config/development.rb:

config.extensions = [:site, ... (other extensions, but not :heroku)]

Hope this helps :)

By: Nalin

Nalin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:59:01 +0000

Hi Casper, great extension. Was wondering what’s the best way to turn off the extension in dev mode?

Thanks for your help!

By: Casper Fabricius

Casper Fabricius — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:14:20 +0000

Hi Magne,

Sorry to keep you waiting a bit longer this time. Nothing is clear from the stacktrace, since for the interesting part is just says ” … 34 levels…” ;)

However, I’d guess that it is trying the write the blank_iframe.html file – or perhaps delete it? Do you have some sort of extension that tries to generate this file perhaps?

/Casper

By: Casper Fabricius

Casper Fabricius — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:10:54 +0000

Hi Magne,

Glad you could use it. As for the error you get when cloning the Spree master repository, it could be for a number of reasons. Obviously the error is related to some code trying to write to disk, but as you haven’t included the stacktrace, I can’t see where it happens. Most likely it is Rails trying to cache some stylesheets or javascripts.

I have patched one specific error related to that I got with the 0.9.1 gem, but this can easily have changed in the “edge” version of Spree you get by cloning the repository. I will upgrade my extension to work with 0.9.2 when I have the time (perhaps it already does, you tell me?), but I can’t really play catch up with the edge version of Spree ;)

Cheers,
Casper

By: Magne K. Davidsen

Magne K. Davidsen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:40:03 +0000

Hey Casper!

Thanks for a great blog post. I followed the steps in the instructions, and it works perfectly.

However, I would like to clone the spree source code, install the heroku extension, and deploy to Heroku.

When I try this, I get an error saying

“/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1262:in `initialize’: Read-only file system”

I followed the exact same steps as for the spree gem. Do you have any ideas why this does not work?

Thanks a lot!