Question

I know how to run a regular node.js app locally, using foreman, but when my app is linked to a MongoHQ database in Heroku, the connection is part of the heroku environment.

Is there a way I can test the application on my local machine?

Answer 1

Foreman will load environment variables specified in the .env file of your app. It’s in the Local setup section of the Configuration and Config Vars Dev Center article. There’s a plugin to Heroku toolbelt that lets you pull the config from your running app, if that’s what you want to use (you might also want to consider running a MongoDB server locally):

$ heroku plugins:install git://github.com/ddollar/heroku-config.git
$ heroku config:pull --overwrite --interactive