Getting set up on Bluemix, for Rails developers

I will go step by step, please leave a comment below if anything was missing or if the instructions were incorrect. I’m happy to help.

Bluemix Instructions

• Install cloudfoundry cli
• Once finished, type cf -v in your terminal, and you should see something like this: “cf version 6.6.2-0c953cf-2014-10-17T18:10:36+00:00”
• Note: if you don’t see anything, you might need to open a new terminal tab
• Type into your terminal: rails new MY_APP_NAME -d=postgresql
• cd into your new app folder
• Add rails_12factor gem to gemfile for logging purposes
• Run bundle in your terminal to install the gem
• Create a new file manifest.yml in your project root directory, this will store your Bluemix App config
• Log in to Bluemix
• Click Create an app
  
  
• Choose Ruby on Rails runtime towards the bottom
  
  
• Choose your app name and route and then click create
• Click add a service
  
  
• Choose ElephantSQL
  
  
• Rename the service name to elephant and click create
  
  
• Update your manifest.yml to look similar to this:

 1 ---
 2 applications:
 3 - name: APP_NAME
 4   memory: 512M
 5   instances: 1
 6   host: HOST_NAME
 7   domain: mybluemix.net
 8   path: .
 9   services:
10   - elephant

• In your console run rake db:create db:migrate to create your dbs and the schema
• Open config/database.yml and change your Production settings to look similar to this:

 1 production:
 2 <% if ENV['VCAP_SERVICES'] %>
 3 <% services = JSON.parse(ENV['VCAP_SERVICES'])
 4    postgres = services["elephantsql"]
 5    credentials = postgres.first["credentials"] %>
 6   url: <%= credentials["uri"] %>
 7 <% else %>
 8   <<: *default
 9   database: db/production.sqlite3
10 <% end %>

• You should now be ready to push to Bluemix
• Run cf login
• The API endpoint it’s asking for is: https://api.ng.bluemix.net
• Choose your target space and org
• Run cf push -c "rake db:migrate" (NOTE: This may take a moment, and also cause an error at the end)
• If an error was caused from the previous command, hit ctrl+c to cancel it
• Next, run cf push -c "null" and you shouldn’t get any errors