7 Steps to deploy grails application in heroku web server

7 Simple steps to deploy your first grails app in Heroku server.

• Step 1) Install Git
• Step 2) Create account in Heroku
• Step 3) Install Heroku Toolbelt
  Try

  wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh
  

  or
  Below code taken from here

  mkdir ~/heroku-debs
  cd ~/heroku-debs wget http://toolbelt.heroku.com/ubuntu/foreman-0.60.0.deb
  wget http://toolbelt.heroku.com/ubuntu/heroku-toolbelt-2.34.0.deb
  wget http://toolbelt.heroku.com/ubuntu/heroku-2.34.0.deb
  sudo dpkg -i *.deb
  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -f install
  heroku login
  

  enter your heroku authentication details

• Step 4) Create new grails app

  grails create-app herokuApp
  cd herokuApp
  

• Step 5) Create new git repository on your git account
• Step 6) Initialize your git repository

  git init
  git remote add origin git_remote_url
  git commit -m "message"
  git push
  

• Step 7) Initialize your heroku server instance

  heroku create
  git remote -v
  git push heroku master
  

  You can see these details in your screen

  Fetching repository, done.
  Counting objects: 9, done.
  Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
  Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
  Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 544 bytes, done.
  Total 5 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
  -----> Grails app detected
  -----> Grails 2.2.3 app detected
  WARNING: The Grails buildpack is currently in Beta.
  -----> Installing OpenJDK 1.6...done
  -----> Executing grails -Divy.default.ivy.user.dir=/app/tmp/cache compile --non-interactive
  
  | Loading Grails 2.2.3
  | Configuring classpath
  
  Procfile declares types  -> (none)
  Default types for Grails -> web
  .
  .
  
  -----> Compressing... done, 83.8MB
  -----> Launching... done, v23
  http://still-cliffs-9238.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku
  
  

Note : you can see sever logs as well

sudo heroku logs --tail

Example server logs

heroku[slug-compiler]: Slug compilation finished
heroku[web.1]: State changed from down to starting
heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command <code>java -Xmx384m -Xss512k -XX:+UseCompressedOops -jar server/webapp-runner.jar $RUNNER_OPTS --port 43849 target/*.war</code>
app[web.1]: Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS:  -Djava.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly=true
app[web.1]: Adding Context  for target/myHeroKuApp-0.1.war
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
app[web.1]: INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler [&quot;http-nio-43849&quot;]
app[web.1]: Jan 13, 2014 11:56:52 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool getSharedSelector
app[web.1]: INFO: Using a shared selector for servlet write/read
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
app[web.1]: INFO: Starting service Tomcat
app[web.1]: Jan 13, 2014 11:56:52 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
app[web.1]: INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.40
heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to up

So by these seven simple steps you can easily configure Git and Heroku, and deploy your first Grails app on Heroku server.

Thanks