Install Heroku Toolbelt

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video, I want to start to talk about web hosting,
• 00:06 what we're going to be using, and we need to install a tool in order to use it.
• 00:09 So for this course, I'm recommending that we use Heroku for web hosting.
• 00:14 Heroku is a super popular web hosting company.
• 00:18 They've been around forever.
• 00:19 They are top notch.
• 00:21 And the reason why I like them is because they have a free tier.
• 00:24 And that's what we're going to use for this course.
• 00:27 Now, the free tier doesn't work that great.
• 00:29 I mean, it works fine, it's just not very powerful.
• 00:32 So only a few people can come to your website at the same time before
• 00:35 the website starts to get very slow, right?
• 00:38 And then if you want it to be faster when more people come, you have to sign up, or
• 00:42 you have to actually pay more.
• 00:44 And you can look on pricing, it's very reasonably priced.
• 00:46 See there's a free tier, there's a hobby tier that's a little more powerful.
• 00:51 That's $7 a month, that's not bad, right?
• 00:53 And as you make it more powerful, you're adding dynos, and
• 00:57 you can see the price goes up based on that.
• 00:59 Now that's great, because you can scale your website as it becomes more popular.
• 01:03 And you don't have to pay for it until it becomes more popular.
• 01:07 And then scaling it up is as easy as clicking a button, and it's super easy.
• 01:11 So like I said, I recommend the free tier.
• 01:13 So go ahead and sign up for an account.
• 01:16 They may ask for your credit card.
• 01:17 They used to, years ago, even for free accounts.
• 01:18 But these guys are a solid company,
• 01:20 they're not going to charge you unless you sign up for something that costs money.
• 01:26 So you don't have to worry about that.
• 01:28 In order to use Heroku, we need something called the Heroku Toolbelt.
• 01:31 So let's go ahead and install that right now.
• 01:33 So just go to Google and type in Heroku Toolbelt.
• 01:37 And it's down here, it's the third one listed.
• 01:41 And the URL is devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli,
• 01:46 cli stands for command line interface.
• 01:49 So I'll put a link to this in the resource files of this course.
• 01:55 So just scroll down here, and whatever OS you have, Mac, Windows, or Linux,
• 01:59 you can just download the installer for it.
• 02:01 So we're on Windows, we want the 64-bit installer.
• 02:05 You're almost certainly going to want the 64-bit installer.
• 02:08 So just go ahead and save it.
• 02:10 And you can save this anywhere.
• 02:11 I'm just going to save it to my desktop, doesn't really matter.
• 02:15 And now I'm on Firefox, so my downloads are up here.
• 02:18 If you're on Chrome, your downloads are going to be down here.
• 02:22 Wherever it is, just go ahead and click on it.
• 02:25 And then just click this to run it, and here's the screen that pops up.
• 02:28 We just want to make sure all of these are checked, and then just click Next.
• 02:33 And then go ahead and click Install.
• 02:35 Now I'm not going to do this, because I've already installed this.
• 02:39 But you can go ahead and do that.
• 02:40 It will go through a little countdown thing that installs it.
• 02:41 And when it's finished, you can just close it.
• 02:46 So I'm going to go ahead and cancel it.
• 02:47 Now, the one thing that's important is you need to restart your Git Bash
• 02:52 terminal in order for this to take effect.
• 02:55 So come up here and close this out.
• 02:58 And be sure when you open it again to come back to your
• 03:01 /c/mywebsite/djangowebsite directory and engage your virtual environment.
• 03:06 That's so important.
• 03:08 In fact, in case you've forgotten, I'm going to go ahead and
• 03:12 just open up another Git Bash terminal and pull it over here.
• 03:16 And let's just walk through this really quickly.
• 03:20 So we want to cd into /c/my website.
• 03:24 And when we do that, we see ls.
• 03:25 Here's our virtual directory.
• 03:28 So remember to turn on our virtual environment,
• 03:32 we type in source and then virtual/Scripts/activate.
• 03:36 And when we do, we see this (virtual) thing.
• 03:40 Now we need to cd into our /djangowebsite directory.
• 03:45 Oops, cd into our djangowebsite directory, no slash at the beginning of it.
• 03:52 And when we do, we see (master).
• 03:53 So I'm going to go ahead and clear the screen and type in ls again.
• 03:58 We see the manage.py file, so we know we're in the right place.
• 04:01 We see this (master), so we know that our Git has been initiated.
• 04:05 And we see this (virtual) thing, so we're good to go.
• 04:09 So just to be sure, we can type in heroku --version.
• 04:11 And if something pops up, like we see here a bunch of numbers,
• 04:15 that means that it's been installed correctly.
• 04:18 It's telling me there's an update available.
• 04:20 That doesn't matter, I'm just going to keep my current version.
• 04:24 If you get an error or something, if you don't see numbers that look vaguely like
• 04:28 this, they may look different, because you may be downloading a different version.
• 04:32 I'm on 7.30, you're going to download 7.33 or above,
• 04:37 depending on when you watch this video.
• 04:39 But as long as you see something there, that means that the Heroku Toolbelt has
• 04:43 been installed correctly, and you're ready to go.
• 04:45 So in the next video, we'll start to push our code up to Heroku.

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