Ruby On Rails How to Copy local Postgres db to Heroku

Question

I tried this on RubyMine Terminal:

heroku pg:push ror_development postgres://budobqbtsbzmlx:hUNYKkaMap-cExovtPJat4ajPm@ec2-54-217-208-1 58.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:5432/dbhsnsvf36h8tu

But its return me error:

Unknown database: postgres://budobqbtsbzmlx:hUNYKkaMap-cExovtPJat4ajPm@ec2-54-217-208-158.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws. com:5432/dbhsnsvf36h8tu. Valid options are: DATABASE_URL, HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ONYX_URL

and also this error:

Connecting to HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ONYX_URL (DATABASE_URL) 'psql' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Can somebody show detail sample of doing this action on windows ?

Answer 1

The error message states that you should use the environment variables rather than explicit names. The documentation states you should do something like:
heroku pg:push mylocaldb HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ONYX

That said, I've never used this technique but did manage to successfully push my local db to heroku postgresql using this procedure .

Here's the short version:

1. install pgbackups:
   heroku addons:add pgbackups

2. backup your local db:
   pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U <user> <dbname> > local_pg.dump

3. upload this file to a web server (I use S3 or dropbox). Let's assume http://www.dropbox.com/me/local_pg.dump

4. now restore into your heroky db:
   heroku pgbackups:restore DATABASE 'http://www.dropbox.com/me/local_pg.dump'