How to get the DATABASE_URL from a rails project on cloud9

Question

I have a rails project running on cloud9, and I want to dup it to my local machine so I can continue working on it locally.

The problem however is that I have data on cloud9 database already which I'll like to continue utilizing, either while on cloud9 or on my local machine.

I know that including DATABASE_URL in my env vars for the project will ensure that the app connects to the specified database as stated here .

To this end, my question is this:

How can I get the database url being used on the cloud9 instance, so I can just use it directly from my env vars on my local machine? or... is this not possible?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure that database on cloud9 is only available from inside the cloud. To replicate the setup on a local machine you would have to set up your own database

To dump the database on cloud9 you can use pg_dump in the cloud9 terminal, and then pg_restore on your local machine (or vice versa to move the dump from your local machine to cloud9)