Heroku: Display Git Revision Hash and Timestamp in Views?

Question

Let\'s say I have a Rails application deployed on Heroku. How can I display these pieces of information in my views?

• The Git hash for the last revision
• Th

Answer 1

Heroku sets an environment variable with the commit hash ENV['COMMIT_HASH'].

As for the timestamp, you could hit the github api with the hash if you host your code there. Looks like the ruby-github gem can help you with this, or you could do it yourself with HTTParty.