Today Heroku announced their integration with Facebook. Now, with only a few clicks you can have a Facebook application running on Heroku. This sounded interesting so I gave it a try. But while doing it I noticed something unexpected. The environment option of the Heroku hosting dialog showed PHP, Node.js, Ruby and Python. Wait what? Yup, it seems like Heroku can host Python apps. I don’t know if they announced this or not, but this is news for me.

So, I stopped playing with the Facebook integration thing and started working on getting a sample Django running on the service. After a little trial and error I ended with this instructions.

First install RVM and Ruby 1.9.2



Now add RVM to your .bash_profile



Reload your .bash_profile



Now install Ruby 1.9.2 and set it as the defautl



Install the Heroku Gem and set it up



Now lets start by creating a new folder for our app.



Create a virtualenv for new our project and install all the dependencies



Now let’s create a new django app inside our heroku-template folder



Make the manage.py executable. This is required by Heroku



Finally create a file called Procfile in the heroku-template folder with the following content



Ok that part is complete now lets put everything on a git repo



Now start the Heroku application using the Cedar stack.



Finally



This is how the final folder should look like



That should be it! Happy Hacking.