The philosphy and approach of this strategy is explained in this video from RailsConf 2014. The Rails back-end is not essential to the overall strategy, so you can get the idea even if your backend is in a different language.

End-to-end Example

Ember Deploy Demo demonstrates a complete Ember CLI Deploy setup.

It uses:

• ember-cli-deploy-lightning-pack plugin pack as base
• ember-cli-deploy-ssh-tunnel to connect to the Redis instance on the server
• The development workflow
• A Ruby on Rails backend that serves the app (fetching from Redis example)

You can take inspiration from these files:

• config/deploy.js
• ember-cli-build.js
• .env.deploy.production
• package.json

Example Sinatra app

This is a small Sinatra application, that can be used to serve an Ember CLI application deployed with ember-cli-deploy-lightning-pack.

require 'sinatra'
require 'redis'

get '/' do
  content_type 'text/html'

  redis = Redis.new
  project = '<your-project-name>'
  index_key = params[:index_key] || redis.get("#{project}:index:current")
  redis.get("#{project}:index:#{index_key}")
end

The nice thing about this is that you can deploy your application to production, test it out by passing an index_key parameter with the revision you want to test and activate when you feel confident that everything is working as expected.

ember-cli-deploy-rack

Alternatively, you can use ember-cli-deploy-rack, which bundles the described functionality in the Sinatra application as a gem.

Example Node apps

Using Koa

This app does the same as the Sinatra app above, it supports the same index_key query param. It should help you to get up and running in seconds and dont worry about server code. This needs your Ember-CLI app to be deployed with ember-cli-deploy-lightning-pack.

Nodejs example with one click Heroku deploy!

Using ExpressJS

This app is very similar to the Sinatra app above but also implements a very simple /revisions endpoint where you can see all current revisions available to use. It is implemented using Express so should be very easy to follow. This needs your Ember-CLI app to be deployed with ember-cli-deploy-lightning-pack.

Simple NodeJS example

Azure Tables Server apps

• C#-based, https://gist.github.com/duizendnegen/85b5c4a7b7eef28f0756
• Node.js-based, node-ember-cli-deploy-azure-tables courtesy of jamesdixon

Example Flask app

This app does the same as the Sinatra app above, it supports the same index_key query param. It should help you to get up and running in seconds and dont worry about server code. This needs your Ember-CLI app to be deployed with ember-cli-deploy-lightning-pack. It is heavily influenced by the ember-lightning NodeJS server, above; but written in Flask for our python-heavy development team.

Flask example with one click Heroku deploy!