Heroku Toolbelt

Quick reference

• 00:04 We're almost done downloading and installing the minor tools we need.
• 00:08 We still obviously have to download and install Ruby on Rails.
• 00:11 But we need one more thing before that, the Heroku Toolbelt.
• 00:14 So go to Google, type in heroku toolbelt,
• 00:17 and the first thing here is an ad, we don't want that.
• 00:21 Head down to, let's see this link here, it's
• 00:25 devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli and click that.
• 00:32 And we see this Heruku CLI, CLI stands for
• 00:35 Command Line Interface, and our terminal is a command line.
• 00:41 So to download and install this thing, just find your thing,
• 00:44 and I'm on a Windows computer, I'm 64-bit, you probably are too.
• 00:48 If you have a Mac or a Linux, you could see the versions here.
• 00:52 And we want the 64-bit installer.
• 00:54 And same thing, save this to your desktop or wherever, doesn't really matter.
• 00:58 So when it finishes downloading, go ahead and click it, same deal.
• 01:03 And we want to make sure all of these things are checked, especially this path.
• 01:07 And path on a Windows computer means you can run this from anywhere if it's added
• 01:12 to your path, otherwise, you have to just run it in the Heroku directory.
• 01:16 But if you add it to path, you can run it from anywhere in your computer, so
• 01:19 make sure that's checked.
• 01:20 It is by default, but just give it a quick glance to make sure, and
• 01:23 go ahead and click Next.
• 01:25 You can install this anywhere but we'll go ahead and pick the default.
• 01:28 Notice it's 106 megabytes, click Install.
• 01:32 And this takes a couple of minutes, so I'm going to go ahead and
• 01:34 pause the video while this finishes doing its thing.
• 01:37 And we'll pick it back up as soon as it finishes.
• 01:40 Okay, so we're getting this completed message, nothing else really happens.
• 01:44 So you can just go ahead and click the Close button here to close this out.
• 01:48 And that's it.
• 01:49 So we are done downloading things that we need in order to install Ruby on Rails.
• 01:53 We stopped to download actual Ruby on Rails.
• 01:56 We'll get to that in a couple of videos.
• 01:57 There's one more thing we have to do before that, though.
• 02:00 We have to generate an SSH key, and an SSH key is a security feature.
• 02:04 So we'll go ahead and do that in the next video.

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