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

@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ load_dotenv(os.path.join(basedir, '.env'))
 
 class Config(object):
     SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY') or 'you-will-never-guess'
-    SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL') or \
+    SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL', '').replace(
+        'postgres://', 'postgresql://') 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

@@ -36,3 +36,7 @@ urllib3==1.26.6
 visitor==0.1.3
 Werkzeug==2.0.1
 WTForms==2.3.3
+
+# requirements for Heroku
+psycopg2==2.9.1
+gunicorn==20.1.0