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...

Answer 2

I would suggest to use ENV vars instead of a new user like:

https://#{ENV['BITBUCKET_USER']}:#{ENV['BITBUCKET_PWD']}....

Then set them using:

heroku config:add BITBUCKET_X=value

For your development environment you can use the dotenv gem to define the credentials.

See also: How can I specify a gem to pull from a private github repository?

Answer 3

The proper way to achieve this is using bundle config, which saves the configuration on your home directory .bundle/config so it stays outside the repo.

bundle config bitbucket.org user:pwd

And then on Heroku you have to set a simple configuration in a special way:

heroku config:set BUNDLE_BITBUCKET__ORG=user:pwd

And in your Gemfile you just use the URL without the credentials.

gem 'gemname', git: "https://bitbucket.org/User/gemname.git"

Answer 4

I had the same problem, but I ended up doing the following as a workaround to providing the Bitbucket password in the Gemfile.

The basic idea is to clone the gem from Bitbucket into a local directory, add it to your app and package it into vendor/cache so Heroku can use it. My exact steps are below:

1. Clone your gem to a local directory:

   git clone git@bitbucket.org:me/my_private_gem.git /home/me/my_private_gem

2. Add the gem to your Gemfile as a 'fake' Bitbucket repo:

   gem 'my_private_gem', :git => 'git@bitbucket.org:me/my_private_gem.git', :branch => 'master' # this repo will not be used

3. Configure Bundler to work against the local repository (where you cloned the gem in step 1):

   bundle config local.my_private_gem /home/me/my_private_gem

4. Run bundle install as usual, you should see something like this:

   Using my_private_gem (0.0.1) from git@bitbucket.org:me/my_private_gem.git (at /home/me/my_private_gem)

5. Package all your gems into /vendor

   bundle package --all

6. Add /vendor to your repo

   git add vendor && git commit -m 'add my_private_gem to /vendor/cache'

7. Push to Heroku (don't forget to commit your updated Gemfile and Gemfile.lock first), you should see something like the following:

   Using my_private_gem (0.0.1) from git://github.com/my_private_gem/my_private_gem.git (at /tmp/build_19fmj3tup0zy2/vendor/cache/my_private_gem-8bc6f436e2c8)

References:

• Bundler - Local Git Repos
• Bundler - package