Chapter 18: Deployment on Heroku (v0.18)

Procfile

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+web: flask db upgrade; flask translate compile; gunicorn microblog:app

app/__init__.py

@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ def create_app(config_class=Config):
             mail_handler.setLevel(logging.ERROR)
             app.logger.addHandler(mail_handler)
 
+        if app.config['LOG_TO_STDOUT']:
+            stream_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+            stream_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+            app.logger.addHandler(stream_handler)
+        else:
             if not os.path.exists('logs'):
                 os.mkdir('logs')
             file_handler = RotatingFileHandler('logs/microblog.log',

config.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ class Config(object):
     SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL') or \
         'sqlite:///' + os.path.join(basedir, 'app.db')
     SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS = False
+    LOG_TO_STDOUT = os.environ.get('LOG_TO_STDOUT')
     MAIL_SERVER = os.environ.get('MAIL_SERVER')
     MAIL_PORT = int(os.environ.get('MAIL_PORT') or 25)
     MAIL_USE_TLS = os.environ.get('MAIL_USE_TLS') is not None

requirements.txt

@@ -33,3 +33,7 @@ urllib3==1.22
 visitor==0.1.3
 Werkzeug==0.14.1
 WTForms==2.1
+
+# requirements for Heroku
+psycopg2==2.7.3.1
+gunicorn==19.7.1