Getting `heroku db:pull` to Work

heroku_db_pull.md

Getting heroku db:pull to Work

• Install RVM
• Install Ruby 1.9.2

$ rvm install 1.9.2

• I had to do this business per the instructions I saw when I ran that command:

$ brew update
$ brew tap homebrew/dupes
$ brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42
$ rvm pkg install openssl
$ rvm reinstall all --force

• Use Ruby 1.9.2

$ rvm use 1.9.2

• Install heroku, taps, pg, and sqlite3 (for some reason)

$ gem install heroku
$ gem install taps
$ gem install pg
$ gem install sqlite3

There. Now you can do something cool like:

$ heroku db:pull postgres://localhost/yourdatabase

You should not have to use sudo on any of those commands.

It took me a long time to realize that I needed to use Ruby 1.9.2 to get this to work.

This is a Solutions Log post.

Thanks, this helped a lot! Great to have Taps again with Heroku

I've made what will soon be the replacement for taps/db:push/pull, and I'm going around the information superhighway looking for people who have had problems with taps to get feedback before it's released for real. Check out heroku/heroku-pg-extras#42