This is a good question. I'd like to do something like this also. I
hope someone has an answer.

Regards,
Geolev

On Aug 28, 2:52 am, Thomas Balthazar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know what would be the best way to put an application into
> maintenance state.
>
> I want to deploy a major update (code + db structure + data migration)
> on a Production app, and I'd like to be sure that users don't use the
> app while I'm deploying and testing.
>
> As far as I know, as soon as I run 'git push heroku', the app is
> deployed and the users are able to access it.
> The problem is that I haven't run 'heroku rake db:migrate' yet, so the
> app that is online right now doesn't work.
> Also, once I've run 'heroku rake db:migrate', I'd like to be able to
> test the app to be really sure everything is ok.
> But the users are already using the app and if I made a mistake and I
> want to rollback, I can't, since users are already using the new DB
> structure.
>
> I know I have to test the app so it doesn't happen, I also have a
> Staging app to test everything, but, you know, sometimes things still
> go wrong.
>
> So, what would be the best approach to achieve an application
> 'maintenance' state?
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> Best,
> Thomas.

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