how to run a simple file on heroku

Question

say I\'ve got my rails app on github and am deploying the github repo on heroku.

I\'ve got a situation where I have a simple text file with bunch of words (it is in my g

Answer 1

cd /path/to/my/local/repository
heroku console
require 'my_word_importing_script'

Failing that, try a simple Sinatra application as importer.rb?

require 'sinatra'
require 'sequel'

configure do
  // connect to the database with sequel
end

get '/import/a-long-unguessable-url-fdsjklgfuiwfnjfkdsklfds' do
  words = YAML.load(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "my_list_of_words.yaml"))
  words.each do |word|
    // Your logic for inserting into the database with sequel
  end
end

Hitting http://example.com/import/a-long-unguessable-url-fdsjklgfuiwfnjfkdsklfds in your browser would kick off the import. Handy for an external cron task.

You would also need a config.ru file in the repo:

require 'importer'
run Sinatra::Application