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    Ongoing observations by End Point Dev people

    Heroku: dumping production database to staging

    Marina Lohova

    By Marina Lohova
    June 17, 2015

    If you need to dump the production database locally Heroku has a nice set of tools to make this as smooth as humanly possible. In short, remember these two magic words: pg:pull and pg:push. This article details the process https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgresql#pg-push-and-pg-pull

    However, when I first tried it I had to resolved few issues.

    My first problem was:

    pg:pull not found
    

    To fix this:

    1. Uninstall the “heroku” gem with
    gem uninstall heroku (Select 'All Versions')
    
    1. Find your Ruby “bin” path by running
    gem env
    

    (it’s under “EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY:”)

    1. Cd to the “bin” folder.

    2. Remove the Heroku executable with

    rm heroku
    
    1. Restart your shell (close Terminal tab and re-open)

    2. Type

    heroku version
    

    you should now see something like:

    heroku-toolbelt/2.33.1 (x86_64-darwin10.8.0) ruby/1.9.3
    

    Now you can proceed with the transfer:

    1. Type
    heroku config --app production-app
    

    Note the DATABASE_URL, for example let’s imagine that the production database url is HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_KANYE_URL, and the staging database url is HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_NORTH

    1. Run
    heroku pg:pull HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_KANYE rtwtransferdb --app production-app
    heroku config --app staging-app
    heroku pg:push rtwtransferdb HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_NORTH --app rtwtest
    

    This is when I hit the second problem:

    database is not empty
    

    I fixed it by doing:

    heroku pg:reset HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_NORTH
    

    Happy database dumping!

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