Rubygems compresses your code into a tar archive. GitHub pulls all the code in source control similar to if you did a manual clone and it doesn't compress.
What you're seeing is expected. — Sent from Mailbox On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Jason Fleetwood-Boldt <jasonfleetwoodbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > gem 'spree', git: 'https://github.com/spree/spree.git', branch: '2-1-stable' > --> my slug is 262 MB > gem 'spree', '2.1.12' > if I point my Spree app to a gem built with a reference to an open github > repo, when it compiles & builds at 262 MB. When I point it to the packaged > gem at Ruby gems -- basically the same exact set of code with about 4 small > commit difference -- it compiles & builds at 192 MB. > So it appears to me that there is a HUGE overhead in terms of slug size if > you point a gem to build from Github source rather than using a Rubygem's > built version. > Has anyone else seen this effect and can confirm? > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
