Foreman: Use different Procfile in development and production

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Arnaud Leymet picture Arnaud Leymet · Jul 21, 2012 · Viewed 18.6k times · Source

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:

web: shotgun config.ru -s thin -o 0.0.0.0 -p $PORT -E $RACK_ENV

It works great with both development and production. But the thing is, I don't want to use shotgun in production since it's too slow.

Can we use separate Procfile configurations for both dev and prod?

Answer

matt picture matt · Jul 21, 2012

You could use two Procfiles (e.g. Procfile and Procfile.dev) and use foremans -f option to select a different one to use in dev:

In dev (Procfile.dev contains your shotgun web process):

foreman start -f Procfile.dev

In production, foreman start will pick up the normal Procfile.

Alternatively you could create a bin directory in your app with a script to start the appropriate web server depending on $RACK_ENV (an idea I found in a comment made by the creator of Foreman, so worth considering).

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