Using a mute browser with Heroku Rails Unicorn package

Question

I saw messages that you can change the build on Heroku, use PhantomJS with the Cedar stack, but can I launch a mute browser on the unicorn stack?

Answer 1

Yes, and someone already wrote buildpack to enable PhantomJS (the Internet and open source are amazing).

If you want to run the headless PhantomJS on the Heroku dynamo, you will need to:

• Go to Heroku multi-line package: https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi
• Install Ruby buildpack for your application: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby
• Setting up PhantomJS buildpack for your needs: https://github.com/stomita/heroku-buildpack-phantomjs

A multi-line package should be configured as an official Heroku buildpack. Then you need to add two other buildpack urls to your .buildpacks file. There is additional information about configuring each collector using the links above.

Using this, you can deploy the Rails application, run your PhantomJS code / tests, all on one headless announcer.