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Is it possible to have two different databases for development or production? One for Heroku and one for local development?
Heroku uses PostgreSQL but I prefer SQLlite for local development.
yes, it’s totally possible – you can then use
heroku db:pushto push your local SQLite database into postgres running on Heroku.BUT
And this is from personal experience, I’ve run into situations where SQL I’ve written is different between sqlite/postgres/mysql AND also gems I’ve used which themselves used findbysql which weren’t tested against postgres and has then caught my out when I’ve put it on Heroku.
For the few seconds it takes to install postgres locally I would STRONGLY recommend you use the DB platform you are ultimately going to deploy to.