Question

I setup a remote connection locally and need to push it to heroku. When I pushed it to heroku I got an error saying:

RemoteDBName is not configured.

I’m just assuming (also searched and saw) heroku uses their own config.yml file.

Answer 1

Figured this out, for anybody connecting to a remote database on heroku that might see this:

Heroku replaces your database.yml file with their own, overwriting anything in yours.

To get around this:

• Create a new file in your config folder, name it whatever.yml
• Setup the connection string in this file.

• Create a new file in your initializers folder, I called mine load_remote.rb. In this file write this line of code:

  REMOTE_DB = YAML.load_file(“#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/YOURNEWFILEHERE.yml”)

• Establish your connection in any of the remote models with this line of code:

  establish_connection Remote_DB[‘Whatever you named your connection string in the yml file here’]