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Setting up Heroku like deployment is pretty easy. There are lot of reasons why to do this but a big one specifically is cost. Heroku is expensive compared to a $20 DigitalOcean droplet. Of course, learning how to be a system administrator is required but not at all difficult.

In this series of how-to's, we'll be starting off deploying a Ruby on Rails app using a DigitalOcean droplet, Ubuntu, Docker and Dokku all for $5 a month that can easily be scaled to $20 a month (recommended for production apps).

Setup a Droplet

1. Don't have a DigitalOcean account, create one.

2. Create a droplet:

3. Select the One-click Apps tab:

• Choose an image - Dokku 0.7.2 on 16.04

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#!/bin/bash
# init
function pause(){
  read -p "Press [Enter] to continue . . ."
  echo
}
printf "\e[1;31mCreate app: dokku apps:create appname\033[0m\n"
pause
dokku apps:create appname
pause

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GIT COMMANDS
First Commit
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
$ git remote add origin [git address]
$ git push -u origin master

Branches
$ git checkout -b [name of branch]