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Joker
Joker

Reputation: 2239

Change default project root - Heroku

Heroku wants a git repository in an application root directory with a Procfile. What is common best practice for creating an outer directory? Ideally, this outer directory is the root of my git repo, and it contains documentation and high level deployment documentation, in addition to the application root. Obviously - if this would mean my git repo and application root are in different places.

How do I fix this? Do I have two different git repos? Do I make a submodule? Is there a way to just tell Heroku "Hey - this isn't the application root, that directory is though!"

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 867

Answers (1)

Agis
Agis

Reputation: 33626

The standard structure (at least for Rails apps) is to have a root folder (which is also the application's and repository's root) which contains the application code, documentation and the Procfile.

I've never seen an "outer" folder in any of the apps and I don't see how this could be a good idea. It would just make things more complex.

Example: https://github.com/railstutorial/sample_app. In Rails apps for example, the documentation lives on the doc/ directory, the README is in the root folder README.md and the Procfile is also in the root folder.

Upvotes: 1

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