An Opinionated Guide to Configuring Rails on Heroku

So you’re firing up a new Rails application and you’ve chosen Heroku as your preferred hosting solution. First, congrats! Taking a new app to production is exciting and one of the best times of a developer’s application-cycle. Our little team of two-and-a-half senior Rails devs here at Judoscale (including a Rails core team member!) still love that “hello, world!” moment ☺️. And we still totally endorse Heroku as being the simplest, easiest, and most straightforward way to bring a Rails application to production. This is the way! We’ve kicked around the idea of putting together a wide list of recommendations for various architectures, configurations, and setups for a Rails app on Heroku for a couple of years. It’s a big undertaking and there are so many layers to cover, but it’s finally time we put ourselves out there! So, without further ado, here’s a bunch of opinions on how you should setup a fresh Rails app on Heroku!.