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Hi, author here. I'm not affiliated with Heroku, I'm just a big fan.

• jarcoal 14y ago
  Nice post, thanks for sharing. I often find myself gushing about Heroku as well.
• latchkey 14y ago
  Yes, nice post. There is some neat stuff in Heroku like buildpacks, but they are also very specific to Heroku, which is a big downside. I really think it is a shame they didn't just use a standard packaging system like .deb to handle things. The server instances are already Ubuntu... it seems like a natural extension to just support setting up a list of .deb files to load into an instance and have it 'just work'. I needed recent ImageMagick/Ghostscript binaries and I spent many hours trying to get Vulcan to work and finally gave up. It is a mess and not documented very well. Someone commented on your blog that they've moved to another system (anvil) to deal with compiling binaries. I can see why they did this... so much unplanned stuff was bolted onto Vulcan it finally just stopped working entirely. It ended up being easier to just write a shell script, but this certainly isn't as sexy as using Vulcan or just installing a source .deb. https://github.com/lookfirst/convert/wiki/Compile https://github.com/lookfirst/convert/wiki/Compile ddollar seems like a very smart, but very busy guy. Relatively simple issues are getting dropped on the floor. https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs/issues/20 https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs/issues/20 It would be nice if he got some more help from within Heroku. Anyway, thanks for writing your tutorial... more documentation is always good.