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Speeding up Heroku Deploys

February 6, 2014 by Rob Bazinet Leave a Comment

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Anyone who deploys their Rails 3.x or 4.x utilizing the asset pipeline and doesn?t precompile those assets yet deploys to Heroku, knows it can take a really long time for your deployment.

I searched around a bit and found a great article on how to shave some time off my Heroku deployments. ?Alex MacCaw has a nice write up about the process:

If you?re using Heroku, the first step is enabling a Memcache addon. I?ve gone with the?memcachier?service, as they?ve got a generous free plan (which is all we need at this stage).

heroku addons:add memcachier:dev

Then we need to make sure the environmental variables are available to your app during the pre-compilation stage. Usually this isn?t the case on Heroku, but they?ve got a new labs feature called?user-env-compile?which will do the trick.

heroku labs:enable user-env-compile

Next you?ll need to add the?dalli?and?memcachier?gems to your Gemfile. Finally, the last step is to configure Sprockets.

Since I am using Rails:

With Rails

With Rails, just configure the assets cache store inconfig/environments/production.rb.

config.assets.cache_store =:dalli_store

And the time savings would be?.

?An example of time saving with a relatively small project:

Not using the speed-up method, deploy time:?2 minutes 40 seconds

Using the above method:?47 seconds

It is definitely worth the little effort.

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