Fancy Installation Instructions for the Cooper Lab

//Create Keys
ssh-keygen -t rsa

//Login to Heroku
heroku login

//Clear your previous keys
heroku keys:clear
heroku keys:add //Choose the id_rsa key.


//Go to the directory you checked out your git files
cd ~/desktop/cooper-union-erin/

//Create a new heroku instance
heroku create

//Push your code to heroku
git push heroku master

Additional Useful Heroku Commands

//After creation, rename your app to something you care about
heroku apps:rename <new app name>

//Rather than create a new app each time, re-open one that you've named correctly.
heroku git:remote --app <app name>

//Emulated cron interface
heroku addons:add scheduler

MongoDB Setup Instructions

//Storage Setup
//More information can be found here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/mongolab

//add mongolab
heroku addons:add mongolab

//Login to heroku.com to manage your mongodb
https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/<app name>/resources

Click on "open api view"
Copy the resource url
Use the heroku_app<app number> and apiKey attributes in the mongoUtil example.

Running your application locally on your personal machine

//assuming you have node installed, install the dependencies for this particular application
npm install

//launch the local node application, by default at http://localhost:5000
foreman start

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