Foreman: Use different Procfile in development and production

Question

I have a homemade Sinatra application for which I intend to use Heroku to host it.

I use foreman and shotgun in development, with the following Procfile:

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Answer 1

Here is a way to handle it with one Procfile and environment variables. I am using this on Heroku.

Set your environment:

export WEB_START_COMMAND='node index.js'
export WORKER_START_COMMAND='node worker.js'

The Procfile:

web: eval '$WEB_START_COMMAND'
worker: eval '$WORKER_START_COMMAND'

Export different start command in your server and dev environments.