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

There is grit installed on Heroku. So you can open the repository there using it.

repo = Repo.new(Rails.root + '.git')
last_commit = repo.commits.first
p last_commit.id
p last_commit.authored_date