Question

After deploying an app of Heroku I am having trouble getting the database populated with some of the data I need there. I ran heroku rake db:populate and it did create the initial admin user, but failed to put the rest of the data in.

I am populating the database with files from my local disk. I suspect the problem is caused because it sees nothing in the directory listed in the sample_data.rake file, as it in on my hdd and not the server. How can I get around this?

I figure that I have to either host all the files and change the directory to the servers directory, or find a way around this. I would guess there is an easy way to move the database from my computer to heroku? I’m obviously pretty new to this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you have a clean local database (i.e. just the good stuff, no silly testing data), then you could try heroku db:push:

db:push [<database_url>] # push a local database into the app’s remote database

And please remember to develop on PostgreSQL if you’re going to use the Heroku shared or dedicated databases, using the same database and version (version 8.3 for shared, 9.0 for dedicated) in both your development and production environments will save you much pain, suffering, and confusion.

References:

• How can I import my existing data to Heroku?
• Import: Push to Heroku