Tracking application changes

Sometimes, you want to track the changes being done to your Heroku application and are interested in knowing when a new version of the application is pushed to Heroku. Typically, in production grade applications, you may want to inform certain users about a new release or track a new deployment by logging its occurrence. For such cases, Heroku provides Deploy Hooks.

A Deploy Hook allows you to receive a notification whenever a new version of the application is pushed to Heroku. Setting up these hooks is simple enough, and the developer gets a wide variety of choices for the type of Deploy Hook that can be set up. Heroku provides Deploy Hooks in the form of e-mails to users and messages to a campfire chat room or a basecamp ...

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