heroku-buildpack-apt

Add support for apt-based dependencies during both compile and runtime.

Usage

This buildpack is not meant to be used on its own, and instead should be in used in combination with Heroku's multiple buildpack support.

Include a list of apt package names to be installed in a file named Aptfile

Example

Command-line

heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-apt

Aptfile

libpq-dev
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-precise-amd64.deb

Gemfile

source "https://rubygems.org"
gem "pg"

Check out the PG library version

$ heroku run bash -a apt-pg-test
~ $ irb
irb(main):001:0> require "pg"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> PG::version_string
=> "PG 0.15.1"

License

MIT