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

The reason for this is because when your app is deployed onto the dyno grid to serve requests, it's compiled into a "slug" for fast deployment, and this slug doesn't have the git repo with it anymore.