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by ryantgtg 1490 days ago
(Not parent) I started my migration last night. Overall, great experience! The heroku addon worked great. I was very impressed that the build succeeded and I had my site working in a very short time, with sendgrid and all that working. Only minor misstep for me was when pg_restore didn't work because by default Access Control has no entries and the migration doc didn't mention having to add one.

The much more significant issue for me is that I honestly have no real clue what to make of Jobs. In Heroku I use Scheduler to run rake tasks. And in Render there's an API Explorer (and my rake tasks fail when I attempt to run them through that) and then I'm supposed to add crons to... my repo (?), and the Jobs I create go... somewhere. I am very confused. I've read the Jobs and Cron Jobs docs like 40 times.
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anurag 1489 days ago
Good to hear you liked Render, and sorry for the confusion between Jobs and Cron Jobs (we have an open task to improve docs for both).

Heroku Scheduler = Cron Jobs on Render. Would you mind emailing me (see profile) or support@render.com with details on your Rake tasks so we can take a look?

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ryantgtg 1488 days ago
I emailed support and Alan was super helpful. I think I'm all set (or at least close).

For me, the key was discovering that while both my native and docker builds fail, my Dockerfile.render builds (which use the heroku buildpack) magically work AND I could use that Dockerfile.render build for the Cron Job (I don't think I would have figured out that I could just plop in that Dockerfile Path in the Advanced section).

I have no experience with Docker (someone set up docker-compose stuff for us like 4 years ago as a student project, but I haven't used it). So it was a little overwhelming for me when the Render migration tool thrust Docker on me.

Still testing out some things before configuring my DNS. I'm sure in a week you'll never hear from me again (because things will just work). I enjoy how snappy the Render interface is. Maybe more of a walkthrough (with screenshots) on the cron jobs doc?

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anurag 1487 days ago
We should definitely add more tutorial/walkthrough type docs.
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