11.27.07

Getting an exported heroku project working

Posted in Programming, Ruby, heroku, rails at 6:00 am by Robert Horvick

After exporting a project from heroku to do some local work there were two things I needed to do:

1.  Create config/database.yml - it is good that this file is not exported.  It contains no details that are useful outside of the heroku environment.  But don’t forget you need it (if you don’t know what to put there - create an empty rails project and grab that one).
2. create the databases referenced in config/database.yml
3. Execute “rake db:sessions:create” - this will create a migration that is necessary to enable SQL session storage.
4. Execute “rake db:migrate” - this will execute all of your migrations as well as the SQL session migration.

After this my project was working.

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