Revel is a Play-like web framework for Go. I’m new to the Go programming language but I’ve heard good things. So I thought I’d take Revel for a spin and get it working on Heroku. Luckily there is already a Go Buildpack and a great article on how to use it.

To get Revel working on Heroku I had to make a few changes to Revel and create a modified buildpack. But it all works! Lets walk through the steps you can follow to deploy Revel apps on Heroku.

First lets get a simple Revel app working locally.

Step 1) Install Go

Step 2) Install Mercurial

Step 3) Install Git

Step 4) Create a new directory that will contain everything:

CODE:

mkdir ~/go