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

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

  
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  Below code taken from here
  
  [php] 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 [/php]

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  [php] 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 [/php]

  
  enter your heroku authentication details
• Step 4) Create new grails app
  
  [php] grails create-app herokuApp cd herokuApp [/php]

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  [php] grails create-app herokuApp cd herokuApp [/php]

• Step 5) Create new git repository on your git account
• Step 6) Initialize your git repository
  
  [php] git init git remote add origin git_remote_url git commit -m "message" git push [/php]

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  [php] git init git remote add origin git_remote_url git commit -m "message" git push [/php]

• Step 7) Initialize your heroku server instance
  
  [php] heroku create git remote -v git push heroku master [/php]

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  [php] heroku create git remote -v git push heroku master [/php]

  
  You can see these details in your screen
  
  [php] 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 [/php]

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  [php] 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   [/php]

Note : you can see sever logs as well

Example server logs

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

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