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How would one use this on Heroku? It doesn't support static file transfers allegedly... and per Heroku they require your app server to serve them by default. h

by randall 12y ago

How would one use this on Heroku? It doesn't support static file transfers allegedly... and per Heroku they require your app server to serve them by default. https://github.com/heroku/rails_12factor#rails-4-serve-static-assets https://github.com/heroku/rails_12factor#rails-4-serve-stati... Any ideas?

_raul 12y ago
Using a CDN (Cloudfront, Fastly add-on, ...) is a common choice, as it allows delivering assets from a closer datacenter to the client and removes load from the app server.
- randall 12y ago
  Yeah but getting assets to said cdn is annoyingish without having app server origin, I'd argue.
  - cmelbye 12y ago
    It's trivial with Rails, at least.
  - _raul 12y ago
    I find the setup pretty simple and convenient if you configure the CDN to fetch the assets from the app (in which the app will need to serve the assets only once for each new release).
snikch 12y ago
You use a rack middleware to handle static files, which is how Rails handles it by default. So, unless I'm completely mistaken (which I may well be), this should work just fine?
- randall 12y ago
  Wouldn't that sit behind the app server? (Equally mistaken potential. :)