rails app in development doesn't show up on heroku - ruby-on-rails

Im developing a rails app. Following this tutorial here:
Tutorial
I finished a part and wanted to push all the changes up to heroku and view them there. I can view the site on my local machine. On heroku all I see is this:
I typed in the following commands after I made my changes, saw the site was working on my local computer.
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Finish layout and routes"
$ git checkout master
$ git push
$ git push heroku
$ heroku open
I even looked at the heroku logs but couldn't make sense of whats going wrong! There is no content in my database, its empty. I just have views setup.

Why did you checkout to master? Are you working on another branch?
If that is the case, you will need to merge your changes to master before pushing your code (supposing you are on master which is already the case after the checkout):
git merge other-branch
Also don't forget to migrate your database on heroku.
heroku rake db:migrate
EDIT
To find out your current branch, type:
git branch
It will mark the current branch with a '*'.

If you have removed the public/index.html file, you'll have to do git rm public/index.html as well, then commit and push to Heroku. If you delete a file locally, git won't pick up on that without doing the git rm, and Heroku's knowledge of your app is 100% through Git.
I had a similarly strange (but unrelated) problem when I had an app that was storing uploaded files on Heroku. Every time I'd do a push they'd all go away. It confused me greatly until I realized that Heroku essentially wipes every time you do a push, and anything that isn't in git isn't kept. A good reason to use S3 or similar for uploaded file storage.

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The page you were looking for doesn't exist

I'm trying to learn Rails ( developpment beginner here )
When I try to deploy my first app on Heroku and execute $ heroku open I got
"The page you were looking for doesn't exist.”
In my Heroku control pannel I also have a second link who works, http://secret-refuge-2130.herokuapp.com/, but different from localhost.
Here's my first app https://github.com/Freysh/first_app
As Michael Hartl propose "Unfortunately, the resulting page is an error; as of Rails 4.0, for technical reasons the default Rails page doesn’t work on Heroku. The good news is that the error will go away (in the context of the full sample application) when we add a root route in Section 5.3.2."
You need to work on the Root route of your routes.rb in config folder.
Looks like you haven't pushed your repo to Heroku yet?
Since you're new, let me give you some ideas about how Heroku works, and how you can deploy your app to it...
Heroku
When you use Heroku, you basically get a bare git repo which you can push your application to. This repo will essentially allow you to use the following commands:
> $ git add .
> $ git commit -a -m "Your App"
> $ git push heroku master
This is, of course, only possible if you have added your heroku repo to your local remote repositories:
> $ git remote add heroku https://heroku.com/......
When you push your local repo to your Heroku one, Heroku then runs what's known as a buildpack:
When you git push heroku, Heroku’s slug compiler prepares your code
for execution by the Heroku dyno manager. At the heart of the slug
compiler is a collection of scripts called a buildpack.
Heroku’s Cedar
stack has no native language or framework support; Ruby, Python, Java,
Clojure, Node.js and Scala are all implemented as buildpacks.
This means that when you push your app to your repo, Heroku will endeavour to compile & run it for you. This is when the app will run.
Fix
To fix, you should follow the tutorial here
Basically, you need to get your git repo created locally, which will then provide you with the ability to push to your remote heroku repo

starting with heroku; fail updating rails app

after a few months learning a bit about rails and making some stuff local, I wanted to try to upload a simple rails app to heroku. Which, by the way, was a pain in the ass because of installing issues of Postgresql. But ok, that's done.
Now I create an app on heroku, I did the login, key thing, git, and uploaded. Was fine, very easy after all. I just uploaded an empty rails app, to try heroku.
Well, then I add a controller. Upload again via git push heroku master and not so fine! I did scaffold, for my articulo controller. And I wasn't able to open the URL once pushed to heroke on someurl/articulos. I got an 404 heroku message here: http://enigmatic-scrubland-8865.herokuapp.com/articulos
Then I create a controller for the home site and get rid of the "welcome aboard" default site. Again push heroku... On terminal I got messages all updated, and lauching. All fine.
But then I access and again, the "welcome aboard" default page.
Locally it works fine. But now I'm not sure if I'm doing it well. It scares me that no failing messages are to see nowhere, but obviously it fails.
After editing my rails app, I always do this:
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "init"
$ git push heroku master
Like the documentation says on heroku. But, no error and no updating.
Thanks in advice.
From what I see from heroku devcenter, the git init part is only to be done on the first initial creation of the git repo, not "After editing my rails app".
In other words, you shouldn't have to "always do" a git init after editing your rail apps.
For the first push, I would recommend a:
git push -u heroku master
That way, all the subsequent push will be a simple:
git push

How to use a heroku app that already exists

please help me,
when I want to upload an rails app to heroku I do this sequence and works creating a new project on heroku
git init
git add .
git commit -m "init"
heroku create
git push heroku master
and then I get a new url like http://-somethingdiferent-.herokuapp.com each time that I need to deploy an project
I dont know how to use that project later without creating other new heroku project
I was thinking to use something like pull of git, but I dont know how is the pull on heroku, maybe -git pull heroku master? but in that case, how can I pull the same project?
please I will like if you know the sequence or any tutorial?
thanks
Try to create an app first
# run this command from the app folder to create a new app
$ heroku open --app the-app-name
# Add it to the remote
$ heroku git:remote -a the-app-name
# push app to heroku
$ git push heroku master
the-app-name shall be replaced by the application name.
one can find more useful stuff here.

Changing heroku repo for pre-existing app

I created a heroku repo some time ago for my rails app but deleted it because I was never using it. Now I have come to the point where I need to use heroku but I am encountering the following error:
! No such app as furious-mist-2295. which was the old repo name, so it is clearly not pushing to the new stack I created.
This is what I was considering trying, but am concerned about causing unnecessary changes to my git repo.
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin <URL to new heroku app>
git push -u origin master
Turns out it can be done with the following commands
git remote rm heroku
git remote add heroku git#heroku.com:new-application.git
Which is quite a simple little fix. Seemed rather difficult without knowing beforehand that these commands existed.
git remote -v came in handy to double check which repos in git and heroku were being pushed and fetched.

Using external hard drive, heroku 2.4.0 commands are not working

I've configured the keys to my heroku, and I've gotten far enough to be able to commit and push onto my heroku server. But for some reason, commands like "heroku logs" or "heroku rake" or "heroku restart" bring up "no such file or directory" errors. Similarly, heroku restart -app "" bring up an "app not found!" even though I'd typed everything correctly.
I think this may have to do with my Github repo being stored and written on an external hard drive. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance!
An external hard drive will have nothing to do with this problem.
Make sure you are in your app.
cd myap
Then you need to create a repo and add your project to it:
git init
git add.
git commit -m 'master'
Then you need to create a heroku project:
heroku create
heroku rename myapp
git push heroku master
Make sure you have done all of that in that order.
Are you sure you are in the project folder that your application lives in. It doesn't matter where the project is as git and the project git config (including remotes) will all be local to the project folder iteself.
Also, you don't actually need to be in the project folder if you explicitly pass the application name,
eg;
heroku rake db:migrate --app myappnamehere
This also arises if you don't have your heroku remote not named heroku. Eg, I typically call my heroku remotes based off the environment eg, production, development. So my typical push looks like;
git push production mybranch:master
In this scenario when you issue a heroku command it is unable to locate the application name which is does by inspecting the git config for a 'heroku' remote so it will always say application not specified which is why you then need to pass it in explicitly via --app attribute.

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