[FIXED] How do you deploy build artifacts to Heroku from Codeship?

Issue

In starting a new project, I put together the skeleton for a Node app that has tests and generates some build artifacts, like asset compilation and compression. I have the tests running in Codeship so successful builds initiate a deploy to Heroku. They've made it all super easy, except I can't find any way to deploy built files, just a copy of what's in the repo.

Has anyone done this successfully? I feel like writing a custom deploy script to rebuild the assets after the tests and manually deploy them would be working against the existing toolset, and I know can't possibly be the first person to want to do this...

Solution

Turns out that Codeship doesn't keep anything, in fact, different servers do the deployment than the testing. It seems that the best-practice here is to recreate the assets on the Heroku side with a custom buildpack, which, directly after the git pull, does the dependency installation and compiles the app slug.

Answered By - swider

Answer Checked By - Willingham (PHPFixing Volunteer)