Every time I push my app to heroku I see the line
-----> Launching... done, v43
Is there a way to make that version number apear within the app so other people can see that number?
Why would you want to depend on running a command after every push? The accepted answer is worse than setting the config yourself.
Instead add to your Gemfile:
gem 'heroku-api'
Add your App name and API key to the Heroku config:
$ heroku config:add HEROKU_APP_NAME=myapp HEROKU_API_KEY=bp6ef3a9...
Then put something like this in config/initializers/heroku.rb
:
unless (app_name = ENV["HEROKU_APP_NAME"]).nil?
require 'heroku-api'
heroku = Heroku::API.new(:api_key => ENV["HEROKU_API_KEY"])
release = heroku.get_releases(app_name).body.last
ENV["HEROKU_RELEASE_NAME"] = release["name"]
end
Finally:
puts ENV["HEROKU_RELEASE_NAME"]
=> v42
Now it's fully automated. You can forget about it and continue to work on your app.