play-heroku-seed README

You can try a deployed instance of the app here: https://afternoon-wildwood-5782.herokuapp.com/

This application is meant to make it easier to create a Play application with basic Create, Read, Update and Delete functionality and get it up onto Heroku. Database manipulation is handled by Slick connected to PostgreSQL.

Getting started

You can deploy your own copy of the app on Heroku using this button:

Local development on OSX

Database Setup

Install PostgreSQL 9.3 Postgres.app is the easiest way: postgresapp.com
PostgreSQL full documentation
Run psql
Set up a development database, note the underscores: CREATE DATABASE play_heroku_seed;
Confirm the database has been created by looking at the database list \l

Run the application

In the root folder of the repo: activator run
In a browser, open localhost:9000. If no folder for conf/evolutions/default exists, do not worry. On first request in browser, slick will automatically inspect the models, and generate a 1.sql file in conf/evolutions/default. This initial file is a complete schema of the application.

Development

Common database tasks

If you need to connect to the database to inspect it or run sql: \c play_heroku_seed; and if you are currently logged into osx as "johnsmith" you should see You are now connected to database "play_heroku_seed" as user "johnsmith".
To view users created in the user table using psql:

Open psql, connect to the database: \c play_heroku_seed;
View user table data: SELECT * FROM "user";

Note: "user" is also a keyword in PostgreSQL, if you enter this command without quotation marks, it will not select from the play_heroku_seed user table, but instead will output from PostgreSQL's internal database users table and you will get something like this:

play_heroku_seed=# SELECT * FROM user;
 current_user
--------------
 Mashallah
(1 row)

To reset your local database: DROP DATABASE play_heroku_seed; CREATE DATABASE play_heroku_seed; and run the application

Introducing model changes to the database

If you modify the models, and you do not care about current production data (still before launch):

Stop the application
Delete conf/evolutions/default/1.sql
Open psql, reset the database by doing the following: DROP DATABASE play_heroku_seed; CREATE DATABASE play_heroku_seed;
Run the application, visit localhost:9000

A 1.sql file reflecting the current state of the application models will be auto-generated by slick, auto-applied by play, and now running. If a 1.sql file was not generated, you have likely introduced a change to the model that slick cannot interpret.

Slick is currently unable to generate incremental database evolution files to make those changes. It can only generate a complete snapshot of the application models at any point. If you want to introduce incremental changes to the models, you will need to manually write the SQL database evolutions.

Procfile

The app will run without a Procfile, as the necessary settings have been put in application.conf, are read by Heroku's default Procfile settings in the scala buildpack and are applied.

The Procfile is included in this app for reference and best practices.Heroku reads the Procfile and attempts to initialize the app in build.sbt with the same name.

Procfile:

web: target/universal/stage/bin/play-heroku-seed

build.sbt:

name := """play-heroku-seed"""

If you modify the application name in the Procfile, make sure you update the application name in build.sbt. If the names do not match, the web process will fail to start on Heroku.

Requests for contribution

Documentation and tips for readme
Model improvements/refinement

mkbehbehani/play-heroku-seed