Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but can't you specify a group for those gems and then only deploy them in dev and test? So as part of your deployment to heroku you'd do something like: bundle install -- without gems_heroku_dun_like
I'm going to have to deal with exactly the same problem so I'm curious if this will work for you. Gabriel On Aug 31, 11:32 am, Ashley Moran <ashley.mo...@patchspace.co.uk> wrote: > On 30 Aug 2010, at 23:54, Terence Lee wrote: > > > In the near future we're going to start requiring the Gemfile.lock to be > > checked into your git repository since this is the recommended deploy > > path set by the bundler team. Please take the time to do so if you > > haven't already. > > There's an unfortunate downside to this. Our Gemfile has gems that can't be > built on Heroku (autotest-fsevent, for example). We avoided deployment > issues by altering the Gemfile to only bundle these on OS X: > > if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/ > gem "autotest-fsevent" > # ... > end > > Then, we deliberately left the lock file out of Git so that Heroku would > bundle correctly without these gems while compiling the slug. > > Today we tried to update our deployment scripts to keep the lockfile in Git. > This now means we have to have a Rake task to set an environment variable > ENV["HEROKU"], re-bundle with a Gemfile that now looks like this... > > unless ENV["HEROKU"] > gem "autotest-fsevent" > # ... > end > > ...then commit the lockfile to Git, and finally push to Heroku. > > We have other issues that I think we can resolve. But the above feels like a > lot of hoop-jumping to get a lockfile on Heroku. > > I'd love to know if anyone has a solution to this problem. Last time I asked > nobody had a simple workaround. But that was April, I think, and Bundler and > Heroku have both changes since then. > > Or, are we alone in having OSX-specific gems in our Gemfile? > > Advice much appreciated > > Cheers > Ash > > --http://www.patchspace.co.uk/http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
