Reduce Heroku Compiled Slug Size

Question

I\'ve just updated rails to v2.3.6 on my app under a bamboo-ree-1.8.7 stack and the compiled slug size has grown up to 40.5Mb! Previous to that last git push, the slug size was

Answer 1

One thing that helps is adding a .slugignore file to the root of your project to tell Heroku not to compile certain files or directories into the slug. Mine looks like this:

*.psd
*.pdf
test
spec
features
doc
public

The public entry is in there because I serve all static files from Amazon's S3 service; just leave that line off if you're not using an external content-delivery system.