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Ruby

Aimee Knight
Aimee Knight
9,701 Points
Posted by Aimee Knight
Aimee Knight
9,701 Points

Heroku

I'm getting my system ready for a bootcamp this weekend and have a question about installing Heroku. My instructions for the bootcamp tell me to type rvm @global exec gem install heroku into terminal. I see Treehouse has you install via the download from the Heroku site though. Is there a difference between the two?

5 Answers

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi Aimee,

I'd recommend following their instructions. Either one is fine but if you're going to a bootcamp it will be easier for them to help you troubleshoot if they know how it was installed :)

Aimee Knight
Aimee Knight
9,701 Points
Aimee Knight
Aimee Knight
9,701 Points

I googled around a bit again and I'm gathering the instructions for the bootcamp are for the gem which according to heroku.com is for ruby only (the treehouse installation is for other languages also).

I ended up trying the toolbelt since its more recent and was able to generate a test app, push to git, them push to heroku without any issues. Do you anticipate I could have issues in the future purely due to using the toolbelt?

Aimee Knight
Aimee Knight
9,701 Points
Aimee Knight
Aimee Knight
9,701 Points

So, I ended up contacting the bootcamp leader and toolbelt was fine. Interestingly, when I checked the instructions status on GitHub today they had been updated yesterday and called for installing toolbelt! Thanks Treehouse for getting me going correctly the first time!

Aimee Knight
Aimee Knight
9,701 Points
Aimee Knight
Aimee Knight
9,701 Points

I should clarify my verb in that it was a workshop, but it went great. I definitely got a more firm understanding of github, terminal, and a bunch of things in Rails that were pretty much mush to me. I just started exploring development a few months ago so I feel like it helped solidify the direction I want to go. I have mounds of material I want to go through, then I hope to look into a weeklong bootcamp in Atlanta, and see where I can go from there. I can't get enough of this stuff!