Rails & NLTK deploying to Heroku
Question: I may be wrong, but I have a Rails app which uses python script with some NLTK
dependencies (it was easier to achieve what I wanted with it)...

It works fine locally (python script runs in the background) of course, but
not everything is as smooth when I try to deploy it..

Is there any way I can deploy NLTK to heroku?

I know I can put it to vendor/plugins or smth like that, but that will hardly
make

    
    
    import nltk 
    

in my python script recognize it.

I hope the question is clear enough )


Answer: You should be able to do this, though it will take some customization. You
could create a buildpack which both installs your ruby dependencies as well as
your python dependencies. It could become some composite of:

<https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby/>
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python/

Once it installs the dependencies you just need to ensure your PATH is set to
load the appropriate locations.

