How I Got a Tornado App Running on Heroku in 10 Seconds

I’d been wanting to try out Heroku and Tornado for a while, so why not try them together?  I found a nice starter repo by Mike Dory, co-author of the O’Reilly Tornado book, so I figured I’d use that.  I forked it and rearranged it a bit, and it worked perfectly!  Here’s what I did:

1. I’m on a brand new computer, so I had to install some basic stuff first:
1. Setuptools:

   sudo curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | sudo python

2. PIP:

   sudo curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | sudo python

2. Get the starter repo.
3. Make a Heroku account if you don’t have one and set it up.
4. Make init-project.sh runnable:

   chmod +x init-project.sh

5. Run

   ./init-project.sh

6. That should be it, and your Heroku app is live!

Let me know if this works for y’all!

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