I created a fork on github to ease deployment of Fat Free CRM to Heroku. I found this great post about doing this very thing, but I wanted something a little simpler.

I was initially enamored with the capistrano like features, yet simplicity of Vlad the Deployer. I spent 2 days getting the “simplifed deploy” working. Well, I thought it was anyway. Turns out that it wasn’t deploying the correct version from git.

I finally did it. I took notes as I built a server and am posting it (mainly so I don’t forget). In case someone wants to print this, I left most of the URLs in text so you’d be able to read them. So here it goes.

I love Heroku, I really do. They have eliminated nearly all of the hassle surrounding deployment and server management in the Ruby/Rails world. Here’s the rub…

Recently, I have been exploring Refinery, a relatively new Rails-based CMS. So far I’ve been very impressed. One of the sites I been implementing in Refinery will be deployed to Heroku which has some constraints which cause the out-of-the-box version of Refinery to fail. Here’s how to get it working if you’re interested.