Getting Started on Heroku Fir with Ruby
Introduction
Complete this tutorial to deploy a sample Ruby app to Heroku Private Spaces on the Fir generation of the platform. To deploy the app to the Common Runtime or Cedar Private Spaces, follow this guide instead.
The tutorial assumes that you have:
- A verified Heroku Account
- An existing Fir Private Space
- A team admin or member role that has the
app creationpermission on the space. - An SSH key added to your Heroku account
- Ruby 3.2.4 installed locally - see the installation guides for Ruby and Rails on macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Bundler installed locally - run
gem install bundler - Postgres installed locally
Using dynos and databases to complete this tutorial counts towards your usage. We recommend using dyno-1c-0.5gb dynos and an Essential-0 Postgres database to complete this tutorial. Delete all resources after completing the tutorial.
Set Up
Install the Heroku Command Line Interface (CLI). Use the CLI to manage and scale your app, provision add-ons, view your logs, and run your app locally.
The Heroku CLI requires Git, the popular version control system. If you don’t already have Git installed, complete the following before proceeding:
Download and run the installer for your platform:
macOS
WindowsDownload the appropriate installer for your Windows installation:
You can find more installation options for the Heroku CLI here.
After installation, you can use the heroku command from your command shell.
To log in to the Heroku CLI, use the heroku login command:
$ heroku login
heroku: Press any key to open up the browser to login or q to exit:
Opening browser to https://cli-auth.heroku.com/auth/cli/browser/***
heroku: Waiting for login...
Logging in... done
Logged in as me@example.com
This command opens your web browser to the Heroku login page. If your browser is already logged in to Heroku, click the Log In button on the page.
This authentication is required for the heroku and git commands to work correctly.
If you have any problems installing or using the Heroku CLI, see the main Heroku CLI article for advice and troubleshooting steps.
If you’re behind a firewall that uses a proxy to connect with external HTTP/HTTPS services, set the HTTP_PROXY or HTTPS_PROXY environment variables in your local development environment before running the heroku command.
Clone the Sample App
If you’re new to Heroku, it’s recommended that you complete this tutorial using the Heroku-provided sample application.
To deploy an existing application, follow this article instead.
Clone the sample application to get a local version of the code. Execute these commands in your local command shell or terminal:
$ git clone https://github.com/heroku/ruby-getting-started.git
$ cd ruby-getting-started
You now have a functioning Git repository that contains a simple application. It includes a Gemfile file, which Ruby’s dependency manager, bundler, uses to install dependencies.
Define a Procfile
Use a Procfile, a text file in the root directory of your application, to explicitly declare what command to execute to start your app.
The Procfile in the example app looks like this:
web: bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb
This Procfile declares a single process type, web, and the command needed to run it. The name web is important here. It declares that this process type is attached to Heroku’s HTTP routing stack and receives web traffic when deployed. The command used here runs Puma, the web server, and passes in a configuration file.
A Procfile can contain additional process types. For example, you can declare a background worker process that processes items off a queue.
Configure an IPv6 Host
The code we’re deploying is already ready for IPv6, but when you’re deploying your own app you must make sure it binds to the IPv6 interface.
Fir uses IPv6 to route web requests. By default, Puma will try to bind to the IPv4 host 0.0.0.0. Your app must instead bind to the IPv6 host ::. To accomplish this, use Puma’s port DSL in config/puma.rb:
# Support IPv6 by binding to host `::` instead of `0.0.0.0`
port(ENV.fetch("PORT") { 3000 }, "::")
If you’re using rails server or bin/rails server in your Procfile, you must set the host with the --binding "[::]" flag. For example:
web: bin/rails server --binding "[::]" --port "${PORT:?Error: PORT env var is not set!}" --environment "$RAILS_ENV"
Create Your App in a Fir Space
Delete your app and database as soon as you’re done to control costs.
You can get a list of all Heroku spaces by running $ heroku spaces
Create an app on Heroku to prepare the platform to receive your source code by replacing <space-name> with the name of your Fir space in the command below:
$ heroku create --space <space-name>
Creating app in space <space name>...
Creating app in space <space name>... done, powerful-fortress-82261
http://powerful-fortress-82261-3670d9de0fe8.plum-virginia.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/powerful-fortress-82261.git
When you create an app, a Git remote called heroku also gets created and associated with your local Git repository. Git remotes are versions of your repository that live on other servers. You deploy your app by pushing its code to that special Heroku-hosted remote associated with your app.
Heroku generates a random name for your app, in this case, powerful-fortress-82261. You can specify your own app name.
Provision a Database
The sample app requires a database. Provision a Heroku Postgres database, an add-on available through the Elements Marketplace. Add-ons are cloud services that provide out-of-the-box additional services for your application, such as logging, monitoring, databases, and more.
An essential-0 Postgres size costs $5 a month, prorated to the minute. At the end of this tutorial, we prompt you to delete your database to minimize costs. For production apps in Private Spaces, you might want to use a private database plan such as private-0 or higher.
$ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:essential-0 --confirm powerful-fortress-82261 -- --region us
Creating heroku-postgresql:essential-0 on powerful-fortress-82261...
Creating heroku-postgresql:essential-0 on powerful-fortress-82261... ~$0.007/hour (max $5/month)
Database should be available soon
postgresql-silhouetted-53983 is being created in the background. The app will restart when complete...
Use heroku addons:info postgresql-silhouetted-53983 to check creation progress
Use heroku addons:docs heroku-postgresql to view documentation
You can wait for the database to provision by running this command:
$ heroku pg:wait
After that command exits, your Heroku app can access the Postgres database. The DATABASE_URL environment variable stores your credentials, which your app is configured to connect to. You can see all the add-ons provisioned with the addons command:
$ heroku addons
Add-on Plan Price Max price State
──────────────────────────────────────────────── ─────────── ──────────── ───────── ───────
heroku-postgresql (postgresql-silhouetted-53983) essential-0 ~$0.007/hour $5/month created
└─ as DATABASE
The table above shows add-ons and the attachments to the current app (powerful-fortress-82261) or other apps.
Deploy the App
Using a dyno to complete this tutorial counts towards your usage. Delete your app and database as soon as you’re done to control costs.
Deploy your code. This command pushes the main branch of the sample repo to your heroku remote, which then deploys to Heroku:
$ git push heroku main
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remote: ** Invoke assets:clean (first_time)
remote: ** Invoke assets:environment
remote: ** Execute assets:clean
remote:
remote: - Done (1.5s)
remote: - Storing cache for /workspace/public/assets
remote: - Storing cache for /workspace/tmp/cache/assets
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remote: ## Procfile Buildpack
remote:
remote: - Processes from `Procfile`
remote: - web: `bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb`
remote: - Done (finished in < 0.1s)
remote: Adding layer 'heroku/nodejs-engine:available_parallelism'
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remote: Adding layer 'heroku/nodejs-engine:web_env'
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remote: Adding layer 'heroku/ruby:bundler'
remote: Adding layer 'heroku/ruby:cache_public_assets'
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remote: Adding layer 'heroku/ruby:env_defaults'
remote: Adding layer 'heroku/ruby:gems'
remote: Adding layer 'heroku/ruby:user_binstubs'
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remote: Adding layer 'buildpacksio/lifecycle:config'
remote: Adding layer 'buildpacksio/lifecycle:process-types'
remote: Adding label 'io.buildpacks.lifecycle.metadata'
remote: Adding label 'io.buildpacks.build.metadata'
remote: Adding label 'io.buildpacks.project.metadata'
remote: Setting default process type 'web'
remote: Saving powerful-fortress-82261/builds...
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remote: Adding cache layer 'heroku/nodejs-engine:dist'
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remote: Adding cache layer 'heroku/ruby:gems'
remote: Uploading cache
remote: Launching...
remote: http://powerful-fortress-82261-3670d9de0fe8.plum-virginia.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku
remote: Verifying deploy... done.
To https://git.heroku.com/powerful-fortress-82261.git
* [new branch] main -> main
The app is now deployed. The default dyno size for Fir Private Spaces is dyno-1c-0.5gb.
Visit the app at the URL shown in the logs. As a shortcut, you can also open the website as follows:
$ heroku open
View Logs
Fir apps do not retain log history like Cedar apps. To view an event in your Fir logs, you must run the logging command while that event occurs.
Heroku treats logs as streams of time-ordered events, aggregated from the output streams of all your app and Heroku components. Heroku provides a single stream for all events. View information about your running app by using one of the logging commands:
$ heroku logs
Fetching logs...
2025-04-28T23:16:24.521242+00:00 app[web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz]: I, [2025-04-28T23:16:24.521088 #14] INFO -- : [94118f1f-e2af-8b11-4fe5-eb701d01f117] Started GET "/" for 13.110.54.12 at 2025-04-28 23:16:24 +0000
2025-04-28T23:16:24.521885+00:00 app[web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz]: I, [2025-04-28T23:16:24.521808 #14] INFO -- : [94118f1f-e2af-8b11-4fe5-eb701d01f117] Processing by WelcomeController#index as */*
2025-04-28T23:16:24.523457+00:00 app[web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz]: I, [2025-04-28T23:16:24.523371 #14] INFO -- : [94118f1f-e2af-8b11-4fe5-eb701d01f117] Rendered layout layouts/application.html.erb (Duration: 0.8ms | Allocations: 327)
2025-04-28T23:16:24.523650+00:00 app[web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz]: I, [2025-04-28T23:16:24.523591 #14] INFO -- : [94118f1f-e2af-8b11-4fe5-eb701d01f117] Completed 200 OK in 2ms (Views: 1.2ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 590)
2025-04-28T23:16:28.428315+00:00 heroku-router[web]: at=info method=GET path="/" host=powerful-fortress-82261-3670d9de0fe8.plum-virginia.herokuapp.com request_id=9c4ce527-1188-f40f-b4cd-0a0ceb37d480 fwd="123.456.789.0" dyno=web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz connect=1ms service=5ms status=200 bytes=9175 protocol=http tls_version=tls1.3
To generate more log messages, refresh the app in your browser.
To stop streaming the logs, press Ctrl+C.
Declare App Dependencies
Heroku recognizes an app as a Ruby app by the existence of a Gemfile file in the root directory.
The demo app you deployed already has a Gemfile:
source 'https://rubygems.org'
ruby '>= 3.1', '< 3.4'
# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'rails', '~> 7.1.3'
# Use postgresql as the database for Active Record
gem 'pg', '~> 1.5.9'
# Use SCSS for stylesheets
gem 'sass-rails'
# Use Uglifier as compressor for JavaScript assets
gem 'uglifier'
...
The Gemfile file specifies the dependencies to install with your application. It also determines the version of Ruby used to run your application on Heroku.
When an app deploys, Heroku reads this file and installs the appropriate Ruby version and dependencies using the bundle install command.
To run the app locally, you must also install dependencies locally. This Gemfile dependency pg only resolves if you have Postgres installed locally. Install Postgres before you proceed.
If the command which psql returns some value on your command line, you have Postgres installed locally:
$ which psql
/usr/local/bin/psql
Run bundle install in your local directory to install the dependencies, preparing your system for running the app locally:
$ bundle install
Bundle complete! 13 Gemfile dependencies, 84 gems now installed.
Use `bundle info [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed.
After installing dependencies, you can run your app locally.
Run the App Locally
The sample app uses a database, so you must create the database and table locally using the rake task:
$ bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate
Created database 'ruby-getting-started_development'
Created database 'ruby-getting-started_test'
== 20140707111715 CreateWidgets: migrating ====================================
-- create_table(:widgets)
-> 0.0022s
== 20140707111715 CreateWidgets: migrated (0.0023s) ===========================
== 20220606153049 AddServiceNameToActiveStorageBlobs: migrating ===============
-- table_exists?(:active_storage_blobs)
-> 0.0005s
== 20220606153049 AddServiceNameToActiveStorageBlobs: migrated (0.0005s) ======
== 20220606153050 CreateActiveStorageVariantRecords: migrating ================
-- table_exists?(:active_storage_blobs)
-> 0.0004s
== 20220606153050 CreateActiveStorageVariantRecords: migrated (0.0004s) =======
== 20220606153051 RemoveNotNullOnActiveStorageBlobsChecksum: migrating ========
-- table_exists?(:active_storage_blobs)
-> 0.0006s
== 20220606153051 RemoveNotNullOnActiveStorageBlobsChecksum: migrated (0.0006s)
Now start your application locally using the heroku local command:
$ heroku local web --port=5006
[OKAY] Loaded ENV .env File as KEY=VALUE Format
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] Puma starting in cluster mode...
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Puma version: 6.6.0 ("Return to Forever")
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Ruby version: ruby 3.2.4 (2024-04-23 revision af471c0e01) [arm64-darwin24]
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Min threads: 5
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Max threads: 5
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Environment: development
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Master PID: 73319
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Workers: 2
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Restarts: (✔) hot (✖) phased
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Preloading application
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] * Listening on http://[::]:5006
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] Use Ctrl-C to stop
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] - Worker 0 (PID: 73320) booted in 0.0s, phase: 0
6:16:33 PM web.1 | [73319] - Worker 1 (PID: 73321) booted in 0.0s, phase: 0
Just like Heroku, heroku local uses the Procfile to know what command to execute.
To see your app running locally,open http://localhost:5006 with your web browser.
To stop the app from running locally, in the CLI, press Control + C to exit.
Push Local Changes
In this step, you propagate a local change to the application to Heroku.
Modify Gemfile to include an additional dependency for the cowsay gem.
In file Gemfile, on line 4 add:
gem "cowsay"
The file now looks like this:
source 'https://rubygems.org'
ruby '>= 3.1', '< 3.4'
gem "cowsay"
# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
...
Modify app/views/welcome/index.erb to use the cowsay gem.
At the end of app/views/welcome/index.erb add:
<pre><%= Cowsay.say("Hello", "tux") %></pre>
Now test locally:
$ bundle install
$ heroku local --port=5006
Visit your application at http://localhost:5006. If your changes worked, you see a cute ASCII picture displayed.
Now deploy this local change to Heroku.
Almost every deploy to Heroku follows this same pattern. First, add the modified files to the local Git repository:
$ git add .
Now commit the changes to the repository:
$ git commit -m "Added cowsay gem"
[main 1bfd4bb] Added cowsay gem
5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 install.txt
Now deploy as before:
$ git push heroku main
Finally, check that everything is working:
$ heroku open
Debugging
The Heroku Ruby Cloud Native Buildpack (CNB) turns your code into an Open Container Initiative (OCI) container image when you deploy to Fir. This image gets executed on our dynos.
You can use this image locally to reproduce and debug deployment problems. Build an OCI image from your application to debug locally by using the Heroku Ruby CNB. If you’re interested, check out the Ruby CNB tutorial.
Start a Console
The heroku run command to launch an interactive one-off dyno is unavailable for Fir. As an alternative, use heroku run:inside to access a running dyno until we add heroku run for Fir.
You must add an SSH key to your Heroku account before running this command.
To execute the command you need the name of a currently running process. You can see a list with heroku ps:
$ heroku ps
=== web (dyno-1c-0.5gb): bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb (1)
web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz: up 2025/04/28 18:16:07 -0500 (~ 29s ago)
Use that dyno name to run an interactive bash session:
$ heroku run:inside web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz "bash"
Running launcher bash on powerful-fortress-82261...
Running launcher bash on powerful-fortress-82261... up, web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz
heroku@web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz:/workspace$ ruby -v
ruby 3.2.4 (2024-04-23 revision af471c0e01) [aarch64-linux]
heroku@web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz:/workspace$ rails -v
Rails 7.1.3.2
heroku@web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz:/workspace$ ls -lah
total 60K
drwxrwsrwx. 1 heroku heroku 17 Jan 1 1980 .
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 34 Apr 28 23:16 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 9 Jan 1 1980 .env
drwxr-xr-x. 2 heroku heroku 46 Jan 1 1980 .github
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 504 Jan 1 1980 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 1.3K Jan 1 1980 Gemfile
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 5.9K Jan 1 1980 Gemfile.lock
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 40 Jan 1 1980 Procfile
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 3.0K Jan 1 1980 README.md
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 249 Jan 1 1980 Rakefile
drwxr-xr-x. 8 heroku heroku 96 Jan 1 1980 app
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 281 Jan 1 1980 app.json
drwxr-xr-x. 2 heroku heroku 98 Jan 1 1980 bin
drwxr-xr-x. 5 heroku heroku 16K Jan 1 1980 config
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 154 Jan 1 1980 config.ru
drwxr-xr-x. 3 heroku heroku 54 Jan 1 1980 db
drwxr-xr-x. 4 heroku heroku 33 Jan 1 1980 lib
drwxr-xr-x. 2 heroku heroku 19 Jan 1 1980 log
-rw-r--r--. 1 heroku heroku 43 Jan 1 1980 package.json
drwxr-xr-x. 3 heroku heroku 105 Jan 1 1980 public
drwxr-xr-x. 8 heroku heroku 126 Jan 1 1980 test
drwxr-sr-x. 1 heroku heroku 38 Apr 28 23:16 tmp
drwxr-xr-x. 3 heroku heroku 20 Jan 1 1980 vendor
heroku@web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz:/workspace$ exit
exit
If you receive an error, Error connecting to process, configure your firewall.
Type exit to exit the shell. You can run any command this way such as rails console or rake db:migrate.
Define Config Vars
Heroku lets you externalize configuration by storing data such as encryption keys or external resource addresses in config vars.
At runtime, we expose config vars as environment variables to the application.
Config vars for Fir-generation apps are only available at runtime by default. You can enable Build Time Config Vars to allow for both build and runtime availability.
For example, modify app/views/welcome/index.erb so that the method repeats an action depending on the value of the TIMES environment variable. Change the file so that its first few lines read as follows:
<% for i in 0..(ENV['TIMES'] ? ENV['TIMES'].to_i : 2) do %>
<p>Hello World #<%= i %>!</p>
<% end %>
The heroku local command automatically sets up the environment based on the contents of the .env file in your local directory. In the top level directory of your sample project, there’s already a .env file that contains:
TIMES=10
If you run the app with heroku local --port=5006, you see “Hello World” ten times when you refresh your browser.
To set the config var on Heroku, execute the following:
$ heroku config:set TIMES=10
Setting TIMES and restarting powerful-fortress-82261...
Setting TIMES and restarting powerful-fortress-82261... done, v5
TIMES: 10
View the app’s config vars using heroku config:
$ heroku config
TIMES: 10
...
To see this change in action, deploy your changed application to Heroku.
Use a Database
Listing the config vars for your app displays the URL that your app uses to connect to the database, DATABASE_URL:
$ heroku config
DATABASE_URL: postgres://xx:yyy@host:5432/d8slm9t7b5mjnd
HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_BROWN_URL: postgres://xx:yyy@host:5432/d8slm9t7b5mjnd
...
Heroku also provides a pg command that shows a lot more information:
$ heroku pg
=== DATABASE_URL
Plan: essential-0
Status: Available
Connections: unknown/20
PG Version: 16.4
Created: 2025-04-28 23:10
Data Size: unknown usage / 1 GB (In compliance)
Tables: 0/4000 (In compliance)
Fork/Follow: Unsupported
Rollback: Unsupported
Continuous Protection: Off
Add-on: postgresql-silhouetted-53983
The example app you deployed already has database functionality. It has a controller and database model for widgets, used by your app’s /widgets page. You can visit the page by appending /widgets to your app’s URL.
If you visit the URL, you see an error page appear. Check out the error message using heroku logs or in Papertrail to see something like this:
PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR: relation "widgets" does not exist
This error indicates that while we could connect to the database, the widgets table wasn’t found. You can fix that error by running rake db:migrate via run:inside. To execute this command on Heroku, run it inside an existing dyno like so:
$ heroku run:inside web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz "rake db:migrate"
Running launcher rake db:migrate on powerful-fortress-82261...
Running launcher rake db:migrate on powerful-fortress-82261... up, web-65bc95dcdb-48zcz
I, [2025-04-28T23:16:55.288700 #58] INFO -- : Migrating to CreateWidgets (20140707111715)
== 20140707111715 CreateWidgets: migrating ====================================
-- create_table(:widgets)
-> 0.0156s
== 20140707111715 CreateWidgets: migrated (0.0158s) ===========================
I, [2025-04-28T23:16:55.312325 #58] INFO -- : Migrating to AddServiceNameToActiveStorageBlobs (20220606153049)
== 20220606153049 AddServiceNameToActiveStorageBlobs: migrating ===============
-- table_exists?(:active_storage_blobs)
Now if you visit the /widgets page of your app again, you can list and create widget records.
If you have Postgres installed locally, you can also interact directly with the database. For example, here’s how to connect to the database using psql and execute a query:
$ heroku pg:psql
d8slm9t7b5mjnd=> \x
d8slm9t7b5mjnd=> select * from widgets;
-[ RECORD 1 ]---------------------------
id | 1
name | My Widget
description | It's amazing
stock | 100
...
Read more about Heroku PostgreSQL.
Delete Your App
Remove the app from your account. We only charge you for the resources you used.
This action permanently deletes your application and any add-ons attached to it.
$ heroku apps:destroy
You can confirm that your app is gone with this command:
$ heroku apps --all
Next Steps
You now know how to configure and deploy a Ruby app, view logs, and start a console.
To learn more, see: