At Shippable, we believe that DevOps is a set of cultural and technical principles used to organize around ongoing improvement.   Shippable Minions enable software teams to focus on what matters:  the product.  We simplify shipping code in any language, to any cloud. With just a little integration, we can work seamlessly with many other software services.

In this post, we'll walk you through an example with Slack, one of our most requested integrations. This is a generic approach that can be used for notifications on any project.

If you'd like a complete app example, using Ruby on Rails and Postgres, we have FULL DOCUMENTATION encapsulated with this example repository on Github.

Pre-requisites:

• Basic working knowledge of a modern programming environment
• Project on Github or BitBucket with commit priviledges.
• Shippable account -- a docker based continuous integration and continuous deployment platform.
• Slack organization account (it is tied to your domain), with the ability to create channels. 
  

In this recipe, we'll cover a frequently asked question:  how do I setup the Heroku Toolbelt to work with Shippable Minions?

This recipe will introduce continuous delivery using Shippable and Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk platform-as-a-service.

• A GitHub account, and working knowledge of git source control
• Experience with a java programming environment
• Experience with MySQL databases
• Local installations of Java7, Maven and MySQL
• Account permissions and keys for deploying to Elastic Beanstalk