Compiling executables on Heroku

Posted by jcorcuera on Thursday July 28, 2011 @09:56AM
from the jonmagic.com dept.

http://jonmagic.com/blog/archives/2011/07/28/running-pdftotext-on-heroku/

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Re:Compiling executables on Heroku by _mayo on Thursday July 28, 2011 @12:40PM (#2817625)

Does anyone know if this this an actual feature implemented in Heroku or is it an open vulnerability? I'm not finding any documentation on this command.

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Re:Compiling executables on Heroku by mnutt on Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:19PM (#2817834)

I can't imagine it's considered a vulnerability. Heroku has had a documented `heroku console` that can do at least as much as bash can, security-wise.

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Re:Compiling executables on Heroku by _mayo on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:15PM (#2818158)

Ah, I totally forgot about heroku console.

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Re:Compiling executables on Heroku by joshpeek on Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:26PM (#2817866)

Had this exact same issue. xpdf isn't on the new cedar stack.

Not ideal, but you can package up a rubygem that can compile itself. https://github.com/josh/ruby-xpdf

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Re:Compiling executables on Heroku by jonmagic on Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:28PM (#2817882)

We thought about doing it this way and opted for the other since it was quick and easy. Great to see your implementation though, may end up just using it :)

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