Reflecting Heroku push version within the app

Question

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

Answer 1

I had the same problem and did it through a deploy POST HTTP hook. Basically the logic is that I created a specific URL in my app and I post the new value to update the config variable.

I did it in Python/Django, but I’m sure the same logic can be used for other languages as well:

import heroku
cloud = heroku.from_key(settings.HEROKU_API_KEY)
app = cloud.apps['mycoolapp']
latest_release = app.releases[-1]
app.config['RELEASE'] = latest_release.name
result['status'] = 200