Heroku Ruby App

Thursday, Feb 11, 2021 | 1 minute read | Updated at Thursday, Feb 11, 2021

@ jeanhuit

In my bid to host my ruby based telegram bot on heroku,

I had to jump through hoops due to the fact that my bot was not using webhooks but the polling alternative.

This required that I run a script to initiate the bot. This also meant that my bot had no web interface.

Most important REMEMBER TO SET ENV VARIABLES IN HEROKU'S CONFIG VAR

Add a Procfile to the root of your app.

Sample Procfile:

  bot: bundle exec ruby app.rb

Make sure you have installed Heroku’s CLI. Run the following command: heroku ps:scale bot=1 -a <appname>

Note here that ‘bot’ here is same and similar to ‘bot’ in the procfile

and

heroku run bundle exec ruby <app.rb> -a <appname>

Thats it. This should get you going?

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