This project setups latest Spirit with Python 3.8 and PostgreSQL on heroku.

To deploy the app, click the above deploy button.

Although Spirit requires a SMTP provider in order to send emails (ie: user activation, password reset, etc), it's possible to try this out without one.

Heroku has many addons but you can also use Gmail's SMTP (it has a daily limit, though) or something like postmark.

It's not possible to make persistent changes to the filesystem of a (Dyno) Heroku instance. This means it's not possible to upload files or build the (Whoosh) search index.

There are ways to overcome this: images can be uploaded to AWS S3 (there are many Django apps out there for this) and instead of Whoosh use elastic-search.

Or don't use Heroku ;)

First install Heroku CLI tool, then clone this repo and associate it to the heroku repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/nitely/spirit-heroku.git
$ cd spirit-heroku
$ heroku git:remote -a my-app-name

Then make the desire changes to the files and deploy it:

$ git add .
$ git commit -am "my changes"
$ git push heroku master

If you haven't yet, clone this repo and associate it to the heroku repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/nitely/spirit-heroku.git
$ cd spirit-heroku
$ heroku git:remote -a my-app-name

Then run the following command to show the error log:

$ heroku logs --tail

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