Heroku buildpack: Meteorite

This build pack allows you to easily deploy meteor apps to heroku using meteorite. It's easy to use different branches of meteor and any smart package you can lay your hands on.

This is forked from https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite.git. It changes MongoHQ to MongoLab, since MongoHQ is not available for --region eu on Heroku.

Usage

cd YOUR_PROJECT_FOLDER
git init
git add .
git commit -m "First commit"

heroku create <appname> --stack cedar --region eu --buildpack  https://github.com/goette/heroku-buildpack-meteorite.git

heroku addons:add mongolab

To get MONGO_URL: heroku config

heroku config:set MONGO_URL=mongodb://<username>:<password>@ds027308.mongolab.com:27308/<dbname>

Then git push heroku master to heroku as usual.

Notes

You need to set the ROOT_URL environment variable, even if it's just http://yourapp.herokuapp.com:

heroku config:add ROOT_URL=http://your.domain.com

You can specify meteor settings by setting the METEOR_SETTINGS environment variable:

heroku config:add METEOR_SETTINGS='{"herp":"derp"}'

You need to have a verified account so the buildpack can add a mongohq:sandbox addon.

PhantomJS & Spiderable

If you need PhantomJS to make the spiderable package work, the easiest way i found is (as described here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13410721/2952630)

Download the latest PhantomJS Version (Linux 64bit)
Create a bin directory in your app
Place the PhantomJS binary in it
Push to Heroku
Add it to your PATH like that heroku config:set PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/app/bin

To verify that PhantomJS is indeed in your path on Heroku - and therefore accesible to the spiderable package - run heroku run 'phantomjs'.