Installing Monocle on Heroku

[raybesiga]

I have had a series of challenges deploying Monocle to Heroku. Has anyone done it? Can you share your experience with a step-by-step guide?

[aendra-rininsland]

These instructions are pretty good: http://dan-jenkins.co.uk/monocle-on-heroku/

[raybesiga]

Thanks @Aendrew this is great. Will try to do it on Digital Ocean as well, test the degree of complexity.

[aendra-rininsland]

Sounds good! I use DO, will be good to know!

For Googlers, one additional point that confused me and isn't covered by the above: After creating a user by logging in via OAuth, you need to run irb -r ./app.rb — this is done via heroku run "irb -r ./app.rb"; make sure to include the quotation marks or else the Heroku Toolbelt gets confused. Also, ignore the bit about thin start, Heroku is already running the server via Unicorn.

[raybesiga]

Thanks @Aendrew it is installed and running. You can check it out at http://habari-moto.herokuapp.com/ How do I manage the number of invites I can send out as an admin user?

[aendra-rininsland]

Looks good, @raybesiga!

I'm really not the person to ask; I really have no idea how the admin system works at all.

That said, to add more invites, I've simply been going into the console add running something like (untested):

user = Brisk::Models::User.first
user.invites = 999
user.save

[raybesiga]

Thanks @Aendrew what is the link to yours? Will try your method and give you feedback. @maccman must be busy doing amazing things but we ought to thank him for this amazing piece of software.

[raybesiga]

@Aendrew The actual assignment that works is

user.invites_count = 40
user.save

If you check, you should see that you have 40 invites. Only problem is that I am not sure the invitation system actually works!

[aendra-rininsland]

@raybesiga Ah, yep! Forgot that the attribute is invites_count, hope that wasn't too difficult to figure out!

re: invitation system not working — nope, sure isn't. See #26.

[raybesiga]

@Aendrew I need to get it working. Should seek advice from @maccman as I failed to find the invite-less branch..

[aendra-rininsland]

@raybesiga I need it working too. I'm going to try and spend some time early this week re-forking the existing codebase (My fork is too messy at the moment) and re-adding that.

In the meantime, if you're wanting to re-add it yourself, reference the diff at cdf602d — most of the invite code was removed in that.

[raybesiga]

You are the best @Aendrew!