can't run this on Heroku about rapns

[ileitch]

You say pid_file is blank on your rapns.yml. Can you please confirm this, from the error given I can see it is still set to 'tmp/pids/rapns.pid'.

[chrischenyc]

Yes, I didn't change anything in the rapns.yml file, here's what's in the file:

development:
certificate: development.pem
certificate_password:

push:
host: gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com
port: 2195
poll: 2
connections: 3

feedback:
host: feedback.sandbox.push.apple.com
port: 2196
poll: 60

production:
certificate: production.pem
certificate_password:
airbrake_notify: true
pid_file: tmp/pids/rapns.pid

push:
host: gateway.push.apple.com
port: 2195
poll: 2
connections: 3

feedback:
host: feedback.push.apple.com
port: 2196
poll: 60

[blakewatters]

This will execute fine on Heroku -- been running fine for months. You need to remove the pid_file: configuration from your YAML

[ileitch]

I'd like to improve the experience of using rapns on Heroku. I've never used it myself so I'm not sure what may help.

• Does Heroku not allow filesystem writes at all? Or is there a writeable directory somewhere?
• Is it even possible to use the PID (with God, monit, etc.) file if we were able to write it?
• Is there a way for rapns to detect if it is being run in Heroku?

[blakewatters]

Ian -

The best thing for you to do is just to create a Heroku app under the Cedar
stack and execute it yourself (it's free). In my experience, all you need
to do to get a first class Heroku experience is to remove the pid_file line
from the config file and run it from the Procfile like so:

rapns: bundle exec rapns $RACK_ENV -f

The log output will be picked up from stout and aggregated and RACK_ENV
will be configured as appropriate for the running instance. In face, we
should probably just start with a wiki page instructing folks to take those
very steps.

• Blake

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Ian Leitch <
[email protected]

wrote:

I'd like to improve the experience of using rapns on Heroku. I've never
used it myself so I'm not sure what may help.

• Does Heroku not allow filesystem writes at all? Or is there a writeable
  directory somewhere?
• Is it even possible to use the PID (with God, monit, etc.) file if we
  were able to write it?
• Is there a way for rapns to detect if it is being run in Heroku?

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