diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 3dc5928..f781580 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ jobs:
       - run:
           name: Smoke test
           command: |
-            ./test_heroku.sh
+             HTTPCODE=`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://$HEROKU_APP_NAME.herokuapp.com/api/articles`
+            if [ "$HTTPCODE" -ne 200 ];then
+              echo "heroku app not responding, failing deploy"
+              exit 1
+            fi
   docker-build-push:
     working_directory: /dockerapp
     docker:
diff --git a/test_heroku.sh b/test_heroku.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 878a5b2..0000000
--- a/test_heroku.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-
-#!/bin/bash
-HEROKU_APP_NAME="calm-crag-04725"
-HTTPCODE=`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://$HEROKU_APP_NAME.herokuapp.com/api/articles`
-if [ "$HTTPCODE" -ne 200 ];then
-    echo "heroku app not responding, failing deploy"
-    exit 1
-fi
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