Heroku assets precompile error, despite compiling assets locally

Question

I am currently first time deploying my app to Heroku, and am encountering the precompile error. When I execute the command git push heroku master , I get:

Running: rake assets:precompile
       rake aborted!
       could not connect to server: Connection refused
       Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting
       TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

After a bit of searching, I encountered both Heroku's own troubleshooting guide on precompile error, as well as this post on precompile errors and Rails 3.2, and following their directions, did the following:

1. Added config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false to my application.rb file
2. Made a new heroku app using heroku create just to be safe
3. Per the Rails guide , ran bundle exec rake assets:precompile

I thought that since I am doing the compiling locally , when pushing to Heroku it would just skip the compilation part based on detecting a manifest.yml file. However, even when I do so, when running git push heroku master , it will still run rake assets:precompile and generate the same error as seen above.

Thanks in advance for you help!

Addendum

In my .gitignore, I have the following:

# Ignore bundler config
/.bundle

# Ignore the default SQLite database.
/db/*.sqlite3

# Ignore all logfiles and tempfiles.
/log/*.log
/tmp

Answer 1

At first glance, I would assume that it should work.

Can you confirm that you have committed and merged all changes into master? ie git status