How do I run a console app on Heroku?
console, console-application, heroku, ruby
Solution
If you want the `console` entry to run, you need to scale it:
$ heroku ps:scale console=1
That said, Heroku uses `console` to mean "the thing that I use to perform certain interactive administrative functions on my application", which is why `heroku console` runs the `console` Procfile entry and provides you a bidirectional pipe. You seem to have a different meaning -- "the thing which I need to always run to perform certain background tasks". (`web` also has special meaning to Heroku -- the routing mesh will send HTTP requests to `web` processes.) I would therefore also rename this, so that `console` still means "console".
You could choose `main`, for parity with `main.rb`, but instead I would encourage you to think about what this component actually does and instead give both the Procfile entry and `main.rb` a descriptive label.
Problem
I'm trying to deploy a ruby (NOT rails) app to Heroku. My procfile is laid out like so: ``` console: bundle exec ruby main.rb ``` However, my app never actually launches. The logs on the system are all quiet, I see nothing resembling any error output. If I run the command as shown in the procfile on my local system, my program launches and runs exactly as it should. More interestingly, if I run `heroku console`, the app immediately fires up on the console itself. Looks like some interaction with the procfile? How do I launch my app automatically without being connected to the console on Heroku and have the stdout captured?