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Matthew Gertner
Matthew Gertner

Reputation: 4537

Heroku and Leiningen: where did my files go?

I have a Leiningen project that is dependent on another Leiningen project. Both are on Github. I cloned the project I am dependent on to the checkouts folder as a Git submodule, which works great in my development environment. I can use the classes from the dependency without even having to add it as a dependency in projects.clj (despite the fact that the documentation says "If you have a project in checkouts without putting it in :dependencies then its source will be visible but its dependencies will not be found").

The main problem is that when I push the project to Heroku, the submodules are cloned automatically but there is no checkouts directory under /app. I guess that Heroku ignores checkouts for some reason.

Presumably I am doing this wrong and there's a right way for me to work in parallel with two Git repos, one of which is dependent on the other. The main issue for me is that I need to be able to deploy my app easily to Heroku. What is the standard way to deal with this situation?

Update: I also noticed that my circle.yml file, which is in the repo, is not in the /app directory. I'm totally confused about what exactly is in the /app directory and where the other stuff disappeared to.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 251

Answers (1)

Tomas Brambora
Tomas Brambora

Reputation: 1046

The problem is that heroku runs lein with-profile production compile :all which ignores checkout dependencies (see https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/1263).

A possible solution is to add :checkout-deps-shares [:source-paths] to your production profile. It's discouraged (according to heroku engineers you really should use an uberjar in production) but it should do the trick.

Upvotes: 1

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