How to deploy meteor 0.6.0 + to heroku - heroku

Question

Im trying to deploy my meteor 0.6.3 app to heroku i tried using https://github.com/jordansissel/heroku-buildpack-meteor.git it only supports meteor 0.5.9 i also tried bundling my app in a .tgz file as suggested by the meteor docs but was not able to deploy I kept getting the no cedar app detected?

Answer 1

I had to do a bit of work to get Meteor 0.8.2 to deploy properly to Heroku. I'm posting the sequence of steps that worked for me. You could turn this into a parameterized Bash script, if you were so inclined.
# Define Meteor/Heroku app name:
export APP_NAME='Your-App-Name-Here'
# Create Meteor app:
meteor create --example leaderboard "${APP_NAME}"
cd "${APP_NAME}"
git init .
git add .
git commit -m 'Initial commit'
if ( heroku apps | egrep --silent "^${APP_NAME}$" )
then
# If re-using an existing Heroku app:
echo "Heroku app '${APP_NAME}' already exists; configuring..."
git remote remove heroku
heroku git:remote -a "${APP_NAME}"
heroku config:set \
BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite.git
else
# If creating the Heroku app for the first time:
echo "Creating Heroku app '${APP_NAME}'..."
heroku create --stack cedar --app "${APP_NAME}" \
--buildpack https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite.git
fi
heroku config:add ROOT_URL="http://${APP_NAME}.herokuapp.com"
# Make sure you have a verified account to enable the mongohq:sandbox add-on
heroku addons:add mongohq:sandbox
# Visit: https://addons-sso.heroku.com/apps/${APP_NAME}/addons/mongohq:sandbox
open "https://addons-sso.heroku.com/apps/${APP_NAME}/addons/mongohq:sandbox"
# - Click 'add a database user'
# - Enter a user name and password, and click 'Add user'
# - Click 'Overview' tab
# Set the following variables appropriately, based on the user name, password, and
# values within the 'Mongo URI' string in the Overview tab
export MONGO_DB_HOST='kahana.mongohq.com'
export MONGO_DB_PORT='db-port'
export MONGO_DB_NAME='db-name'
export MONGO_DB_USER='db-user'
export MONGO_DB_PASS='db-pass'
# Calculate connection string and URL:
export MONGO_DB_CONN="${MONGO_DB_HOST}:${MONGO_DB_PORT}/${MONGO_DB_NAME}"
export MONGO_DB_URL="mongodb://${MONGO_DB_USER}:${MONGO_DB_PASS}#${MONGO_DB_CONN}"
# If you have mongo client installed, verify the connection:
export MONGO_CMD='mongo'
"${MONGO_CMD}" "${MONGO_DB_CONN}" -u "${MONGO_DB_USER}" -p"${MONGO_DB_PASS}"
heroku config:add MONGO_URL="${MONGO_DB_URL}"
# Verify configs look okay:
heroku config
# Configure a public/private SSH key pair in order to perform builds:
export HEROKU_RSA_NAME='id_rsa#herokuapp.com'
export HEROKU_RSA_FILE=~/.ssh/"${HEROKU_RSA_NAME}"
# If creating the keys for the first time:
[[ -f "${HEROKU_RSA_FILE}" ]] || {
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f "${HEROKU_RSA_FILE}"
ssh-add "${HEROKU_RSA_FILE}"
}
heroku keys:add "${HEROKU_RSA_FILE}.pub"
# Deploy the Meteor app via Git and the custom build pack:
git push heroku master
# Any errors?
heroku logs
# Make sure the Heroku app is running using one web dyno:
heroku ps:scale web=1
# Test the app
heroku open

Answer 2

Use this, works like a charm.
https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite

Answer 3

To those having trouble with the bash: node: command not found issue, I went through that too and I solved it by deleting the Procfile.
Apparently, the Procfile indicates Heroku to run the app using node main.js but node is not a valid command since it is not included in the PATH varialbe, or similar.
By deleting the Procfile, Heroku detects that the app is a meteor app and runs it using the node binary with the full path.
Sorry for posting an answer instead of a comment, but my reputation doesn't let me comment.
Also, remember the ROOT_URL must be set begining with http://

Answer 4

I am running two Meteor applications on Heroku (both apps are connected to mongolab, so external MongoDB instances).
Here I have documented how I did it:
.../how-to-deploy-meteor-on-heroku-with.html