Hot deploy on Heroku with no downtime
- by zetarun
A bad side of pushing to Heroku is that I must push the code (and the server restarts automatically) before running my db migrations.
This can obviously cause some 500 errors on users navigating the website having the new code without the new tables/attributes: the solution proposed by Heroku is to use the maintenance mode, but I want a way with no downside letting my webapp running everytime!
Is there a way? For example with Capistrano:
I prepare the code to deploy in a new dir
I run (backward) migrations and the old code continue to work perfectly
I swith mongrel instance to the new dir and restart the server
...and I have no downtime!