On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Jonathon McKitrick <jmckitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > So basically, I need to get used to editing in emacs, uploading to heroku, > and (perhaps) interactively testing via a remote repl, correct? Sorry to > belabor the point, but I'm trying to flatten the learning curve.
That's a good question. I can tell you what the common practice is, and I can tell you what I recommend. Personally I recommend keeping as close to dev/prod parity as possible. (http://www.12factor.net/dev-prod-parity) This means if you're deploying to Linux, you should do development on Linux. At my last job all the mac users ran Linux VMs with Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com/) to ensure there weren't any hidden surprises during deployment. You can even keep your editor on the host environment and run Leiningen inside the VM to test against it and set up port forwarding so you can use the browser on your host as well. It's also wise to make sure all your outside-the-JVM dependencies are the same versions: same OpenJDK; same Postgres, same Redis, etc. Doing all your actual development on Heroku would be taking this to its logical conclusion, but it's currently not quite practical. (This may change in the future.) Even if you aren't constantly deploying and checking how it runs remotely, you should probably have some sort of minimal integration tests that do run on the deployed platform before you promote major changes from staging to production. Most people just try to get the versions and environments to vaguely align, and depending on the complexity of the project you can sometimes get away with this. But for larger projects it will eventually bite you in ways that are usually difficult to debug. > So anything that's a heroku add-on will translate to a lein profile entry, > correct? No, add-ons and profiles don't really have anything to do with each other. -Phil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
