Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken on Heroku

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Evan,

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:40:08 -0400 Evan Hanson <address@hidden> wrote:

> A few days ago I put together a buildpack that allows one to run Chicken
> apps on Heroku; figured I'd share it here in case someone else finds it
> useful.
>
> A "buildpack", for the tragically unhip, is just a handful of scripts to
> bootstrap an environment for a Heroku process. This one installs Chicken
> 4.7.0 and runs a standard chicken-install for your program -- apps can
> be written just like eggs, with setup- and meta-files per usual.
>
> Defining a default command to run once everything is installed is the
> only weird part; Heroku uses a file called a Procfile[1] to specify
> processes, which you can use to start e.g. an awful app on the correct
> port for the instance:
>
>     web: awful --port=$PORT example.scm
>
> If no Procfile is present, the buildpack will try to run a file called
> `run.scm` in your application's root. This may or may not be a good
> default -- I'm open to suggestions.
>
> chickadee, pastiche and the handful of awful apps that I tried worked
> without any real configuration; there's an example in the README. The
> repository is located here:
>
>     https://github.com/evhan/heroku-buildpack-chicken
>
> Hopefully this'll help someone get some hot Chicken-on-cloud action...
>
> [1]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile

That's very neat.  Thanks for doing that and sharing the howto.


Best wishes.
Mario
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