rtomayko/replicate — pull request #22 by ejfinneran (2012-12-22 21:09:55+00:00)
Title: Using Replicate with Heroku

Just wanted to let people know about a workaround I found for working with Replicate and Heroku.

Basically Heroku only wants to pass UTF-8 friendly characters back to the client so you have to base64 encode the replicate output in order to keep Heroku happy.

Full details here:
http://finneran.us/blog/2012/12/17/using-replicate-gem-with-heroku/

I also figured I'd ask if there is any interest in including something like this in the gem itself to make it more Heroku friendly. I'd be happy to hack on that if there is.