How can I keep my Heroku application private?

Question

Is there a way that I could keep my application completely private, and only let the developers have access?

When a random user enters the URL, it should be something like a blank page, but when the developers enter the URL, they should be able to access the app.

Answer 1

My cheap solution has been implementing a before_filter to request an HTTP authentication before every action is executed.

This solution works well along other authentication layers – Devise or others.

USERS = { "user" => "secret" }  before_filter :authenticate  def authenticate   authenticate_or_request_with_http_digest("Application") do |name|     USERS[name]   end end 

Whenever other peers land at yourdomain.heroku.com, they are asked for HTTP authentication, later for other authentication if in place.