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Troubleshooting db:push errors on Heroku

Here is the error I was seeing today (truncated for brevity):

$ heroku db:push --app=my-app-name --confirm=my-app-name
Loaded Taps v0.3.23
Auto-detected local database: postgres://localhost/app_development?encoding=utf8

Sending schema
Schema:        100% |==========================================| Time: 00:00:29
Sending indexes
table_1:       100% |==========================================| Time: 00:00:01
schema_migrat: 100% |==========================================| Time: 00:00:00
table_2:       100% |==========================================| Time: 00:00:00
Sending data
20 tables, 2,783 records
table_3:       0% |                                          | ETA:  --:--:--
Saving session to push_201205300813.dat..
!!! Caught Server Exception
HTTP CODE: 500
Taps Server Error: LoadError: no such file to load -- sequel/adapters/
["/app/.bundle/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sequel-3.20.0/lib/sequel/core.rb:249:in `require'", ...

This was caused by my app not having a DATABASE_URL config variable set. I assumed that db:push would fail much earlier if it wasn't able to connect to a database, but this turned out to not be accurate.

The simple solution was to promote the existing database:

$ heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COPPER --app=my-app-name

To find the name of the database to use in the previous command, use heroku config --app=my-app-name. It should have a name like HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_*_URL.

  • May 30, 2012
  • Article
  • Heroku, Taps