Over the past few months, I’ve been using heroku_san for all my Heroku deployments. In short, this gem wraps up the heroku git tasks into a neat little format that supports multiple environments (.e.g production, staging etc).
However, there’s not much difference between a staging deploy and production one, so the risk of muscle memory kicks in.
Which is why I’ve created the heroku_san_sanity gem. Adding this gem to your Gemfile, will ensure that you’re sure you want to do a production deployment. Before deploys to any production deployment the following will be presented to you:
! WARNING: Potentially Destructive Action
! This command will affect the environment: production
! Toproceed, type “production”
Only by typing in ‘production’ will the deploy continue, forcing you to mentally double check before stomping over your live application. If you don’t, nothing happens. The code’s on Github, so feel free to fork and improve!