Using settings.json?

[SachaG]

I didn't see anywhere in the docs that mentions how to use a settings.json file?

From a bit of googling it looks like this works:

heroku config:add METEOR_SETTINGS="$(cat settings.json)"

Should I make a PR to add it to the docs? or is there a better way?

[yourcelf]

Good point. I don't know of any other way to get settings than the METEOR_SETTINGS environment variable.

The use of METEOR_SETTINGS is really part of the Meteor docs, not something that's particular to this buildpack -- that's why we hadn't had docs yet. But it is definitely part of what someone would need to deploy their code using this buildpack, and the additional detail with the heroku invocation would definitely be helpful.

Would accept a PR for a docs update to explain how to do this.

[markudevelop]

@SachaG thanks for pointing this out, just faced this issue 👍 and @yourcelf thanks for the buildpack its awesome!

[RobertLowe]

@SachaG @yourcelf I maintain an old fork for some 1.2.1 apps using heroku review apps, but I found it useful to prefer METEOR_SETTINGS (for produciton/staging/etc) and fallback to settings.dev.json when METEOR_SETTINGS are missing, mostly used for building review apps

Food for though 👍 https://github.com/takecasper/meteor-buildpack-horse/blob/master/bin/compile#L118-L137

[stolinski]

Thank you @SachaG ! I needed this.