I've set up a Heroku app at http://sunset-pta.heroku.com/. These are my notes on getting set up to deploy. Note that if you already have a Heroku account set up, you will be able to skip some of these steps.
Before you can deploy to Heroku, you should make sure you are able to push to GitHub. See the first few articles in the GitHub Guides for more info. You may use the same SSH key you use for GitHub to deploy to Heroku.
If you don't already have a Heroku account, you'll need to get one. You should've received an invite to Heroku from me by e-mail. Let me know if you need another invite, or if you want to use a Heroku account at a different e-mail address.
sudo gem install heroku
Now that the gem is installed, do heroku keys. It should ask for your Heroku username and password, and then upload your SSH public key to Heroku. If for some reason it doesn't upload the key, you can add it manually with heroku keys:add /path/to/your/key.pub. If you are working on multiple computers with different public keys, you will need to do this on each of those computers.
In your clone of the sunset_pta repository, do git remote add heroku [email protected]:sunset-pta.git. Now, when you've made commits in your clone and are ready to deploy them, you can git push heroku master (...or git push heroku foobranch:master if you're not working on a local master branch). When Heroku receives the commits, it will print out some info about what happened. If you crashed the server, it will tell you so, and show you where to see the crash message.
If your commits included database migrations, you will need to do heroku rake db:migrate to migrate the database on the Heroku server.
If your commits relied on any new gems, you may need to add them to the .gems file in the root of the sunset_pta repository. More info is in the Heroku docs.
If you broke Heroku, you might be able to get some idea about what's wrong by running heroku logs.