[2.0] Play 2 Scala Console on Heroku

[James Ward]

Please excuse the blog pimping here, but I thought this might be useful for a lot of you.  I've blogged about how to run the Play 2 Scala Console on Heroku:

http://www.jamesward.com/2012/06/11/play-2-scala-console-on-heroku

Let me know if you have any questions.

-James

[MG]

James - it is a timely post. I have been wondering how to get access to the Play console on Heroku.

The reason I want access to the Play console is to run the play clean-all command. My app's slug size is 73MB. I suspect that there are some unwanted temporary files from the days when I was using the old buildpack which did not delete some of the cache files.Is that a possibility?

Also, is this the right syntax for play clean-all on Heroku:
Heroku run play clean-all

Thanks,
MG

[James Ward]

Unfortunately, the console won't help with that. :(

When you push code, Heroku uses a Buildpack to compile a slug. That
slug then gets copied onto all Dynos that are allocated to an app. But
it's a one-way process. So if you want to change the slug you have to
change the build process. You can use `heroku run bash` to see exactly
what is taking up space in your slug. You could also find a way to
execute "play clean-all" or something like that from your project's SBT
build.

From the Scala Buildpack it looks like the .ivy2 cache should be
getting cleaned out if it's a Play app:
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-scala/blob/master/bin/compile

It's a bit heavy weight but you could fork the buildpack, make some
changes, and switch to your fork.

Hope that helps.

-James

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[Mohammed Guller]

Thanks, James. I will try the techniques you suggested.

-MG

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