bitbucket private repository on heroku

Question

I have a rails app which requires a gem. I host this gem on bitbucket in a private repository.

In my Gemfile I added the gem like following:

gem \"my-gem         


        

Answer 1

Bitbucket allows for HTTP basic auth on repository URLs similar to github. Specify the URL for the gem as https://username:password@bitbucket.org/username/gemrepo.git.

It does mean having your username and password in your Gemfile, which itself is version controlled, and that's not a good practice, but on the other hand that's what Heroku recommends, so...