Wow I've been stuck on this one for days. I'm having trouble connecting to database.yml on Heroku. I'm on Cedar and ruby 1.9.2. My dev and test dbs are sqlite3 and the prod db is postgreSQL to cope with Cedar rules.
Here is the code in my ruby script:
Rails.env.production? ? (env = "production") : (env = "development")
dbconfig = YAML::load(File.open('config/database.yml'))[env]
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(dbconfig)
All goes well in local but when I push to Heroku, I get:
ArgumentError: syntax error on line 17, col 0: `adapter = uri.scheme'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/syck.rb:135:in `load'
It looks like Heroku doesn't like my database.yml. Here's an overview:
development:
adapter: sqlite3
database: db/development.sqlite3
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
test:
adapter: sqlite3
database: db/test.sqlite3
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
production:
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
database: foo
port: 5432
host: foobar.amazonaws.com
username: foo
password: bar
First, Heroku overwrites your config/database.yml with its own Heroku-specific version. That's how Heroku automatically connects your application to its own postgresql databases. To tell Heroku about your own posgresql database, you should set up the correct config variables and you might as well omit the production database from your the config/database.yml in your repository because Heroku will ignore it anyway.
Second, the config/database.yml file is an ERB template for a YAML file. You must first run the file contents through Evaluated Ruby (ERB) before running the the output through YAML.
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An application in production mode is returning content as expected. It is assumed it is connecting to the configured database. The database.yml file is as follows
default: &default
adapter: postgresql
user: deploy
password: 888xxx888xxx
schema_search_path: public
# For details on connection pooling, see rails configuration guide
# http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#database-pooling
pool: 5
timeout: 10000
development:
<<: *default
database: fort_development
<<: *default
database: fort_test
production:
<<: *default
database: fort_production
However, when connecting to the database via the console, whether in development (where the db does not exist) or in production, the console is connecting to the wrong database. It is also referencing a username which was removed from the database.yml file (and app subsequently restarted).
note: at one time the string myapp was referenced in the yml file for the schema_search_path attribute, however it was a commented out line (There is no certainty as to whether it was ever activated.'
> bundle exec rails c
irb(main):001:0> ActiveRecord::Base.connection_config
=> {:adapter=>"postgresql", :user=>"deploy", :password=>"888xxx888xxx", :schema_search_path=>"public", :pool=>5, :timeout=>10000, :database=>"myapp", :username=>"deploy", :host=>"127.0.0.1"}
> bundle exec rails c production
irb(main):001:0> ActiveRecord::Base.connection_config
=> {:adapter=>"postgresql", :user=>"deploy", :password=>"888xxx888xxx", :schema_search_path=>"public", :pool=>5, :timeout=>10000, :database=>"myapp", :username=>"deploy", :host=>"127.0.0.1"}
The console and the app are not in synch. What can make the console work with different values and how can it be reset to work with the proper configuration data?
For anyone stumbling upon this, there is another place where rake can take instructions for connecting via ActiveRecord.
.rbenv-vars
this file within the directory for the application was mistakenly set as:
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://deploy:PASSWORD#127.0.0.1/myapp
Another potential sources of problems (not clear why as the files properly parses in yaml) is to have the database.yml file only reference the production environment
production:
adapter: postgresql
database: fort_production
password: [...]
pool: 5
schema_search_path: public
timeout: 10000
user: deploy
I have a rails 4 app on heroku with a PSQL database.
This has all been fine in development, but I'm coming to my first attempt at publishing the app with content in the database.
I recently reset the database locally and in heroku. And also did:
heroku ran rake:db migrate
I then created the first article in my articles resource and committed, pushed and pushed to heroku. I expected to see that article displayed (as it is in my local host).
However, when I go on local host in production mode or to the published site, the article is not there.
Is there a step I'm missing for how to push to heroku with the db content you want? Is there something that needs to be done to make the production database recognise the development database? Not sure about the steps for publishing the production db.
In my database.yml file I have:
staging:
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
database: vh_staging
pool: 5
#username: vh
#host: localhost
development:
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
database: vh_development
pool: 5
#username: vh
test: &test
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
database: vh_test
pool: 5
#username: vh
production:
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
database: vh_production
pool: 5
#username: vh
You push on heroku only your code, not a database data.
Try doing that by seed:
heroku run rake db:push
heroku pg:reset DATABASE
heroku run rake db:seed
You should have your data as ruby code in your the file db/seeds.ru to do that.
I am using MAC OS X along with postgresql installed via Homebrew. I am developing using Rails 4.2.1 and ruby 2.2.0. The connection with postgresql server is fine but for some reason every application accesses the database "kstavrou" which is my system username, as a development database and creates the rest as defined by database.yml. That is troublesome if you have more than 1 rails app.
rake db:create output:
Konstantinoss-MacBook-Pro:ecomm-intel kstavrou$ rake db:create
kstavrou already exists
ecomm_intel_test already exists
strange thing is that if I empty database.yml still connects fine to postgresql and tries to create again the database "kstavrou" executing there all the migrations, without trying to create the test database.
rake db:create output:
Konstantinoss-MacBook-Pro:ecomm-intel kstavrou$ rake db:create
kstavrou already exists
database.yml
default: &default
adapter: postgresql
host: localhost
encoding: utf8
username: pguser
password: 123456
pool: 5
production:
<<: *default
database: ecomm_intel_prod
development:
<<: *default
database: ecomm_intel_dev
test:
<<: *default
database: ecomm_intel_test
Well the problem was that the ENV['DATABASE_URL'] was set (by some install script) so it was overwriting the database.yml configuration, as noted by steve klein, so I just removed it.
`export DATABASE_URL=postgres:///$(whoami)`
I'm confused about how to configure the DB in a Rails 4.2 app that uses Postgres and Heroku.
Following the advice in this Heroku guide, you'll get a config/database.yml like this:
default: &default
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
development:
<<: *default
database: app_name_development
test:
<<: *default
database: app_name_test
production:
<<: *default
database: app_name_production
But when I tried this, my development and test environment were using the same DB as the staging environment (note the file has no configuration for staging). That's no good.
This Heroku guide for connecting to the DB in Ruby mentions that any Rails apps before 4.2 would have their database.yml file overwritten by Heroku. Heroku will parse the DATABASE_URL environment variable and create a new database.yml file.
So I guess it's possible to just leave out the configuration in database.yml for any environments that you have on Heroku, such as staging and production. Your database.yml file could essentially look like Hound's (note the lack of a production configuration).
development: &default
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
database: app_development
pool: 5
test:
<<: *default
database: app_test
But since we're using Rails 4.2, I don't think Heroku will override the database.yml file. In that case, do you have to specify DB configuration in database.yml for our environments on Heroku? Or is it still safe to leave them out? If we do need to specify the configuration for Heroku environments, will the following be sufficient?
staging:
url: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %>
production:
url: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %>
I'm also confused about the proper configuration for the development and test environments. As I mentioned above, the first configuration shown has those environments using the staging DB on Heroku, instead of a local DB.
This Heroku guide says to export the DATABASE_URL environment variable for your app to connect (once Postgres is installed and you can connect to it).
Assuming you export the DATABASE_URL env var as specified in the article, what does your configuration for development and test have to look like? Do we go with the configuration as shown in the first guide, e.g.
default: &default
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
development:
<<: *default
database: app_name_development
test:
<<: *default
database: app_name_test
Or do we use a configuration as shown in this Heroku guide (which uses host and username)
development:
adapter: postgresql
host: localhost
username: user
database: app-dev
Update 1: Here's what I now know. A staging and production config isn't necessary in config/database.yml if you deploy to Heroku, no matter your Rails version. Prior to 4.2, Heroku would generate it's own database.yml file based on the value of the DATABASE_URL environment variable, overwriting your config file (if it exists). Since Rails 4.2, your app will use the DATABASE_URL environment variable directly (bypassing the database.yml file), so Heroku doesn't need to (and won't) generate a config file.
I also figured out why my development and test environments were using the remote staging DB from the Heroku app instead of the local DBs specified in their database.yml config. It was because my local .env file for development is based off of my staging .env file which contains environment variables for connecting to the database such as DATABASE_URL. Because DATABASE_URL was present in my development .env file, my Rails 4.2 app was using it and thus connecting to the staging DB. To fix it, I removed those environment variables from the development .env file and created the local DBs (and ran the migrations) with bundle exec rake db:setup.
Update 2: This section of the Rails Guides goes into more detail about how to configure the DB, worth a read: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-a-database
Most of your assumptions are correct. The following is a reasonable database.yml configuration file.
default: &default
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
development:
<<: *default
database: app_name_development
test:
<<: *default
database: app_name_test
staging:
url: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %>
production:
url: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %>
Make sure that the RAILS_ENV is properly set on Heroku (either staging or production), or Rails will default to development.
Locally, the test will pick the test environment. By default, the app will start in development mode, using the development environment.
In fact, many developers choose to ignore the database.yml in version control and never publish it into the repo. The reason for that is, that databases may be different on different machines, that's a reason not to keep the configuration common.
I'm working on a Rails 4.2 project right now, and Heroku has no problem with having no database.yml at all (both with PostgreSQL and MySQL, we tested both). Why? Because DATABASE_URL provides all the information necessary to access the database, even adapter name. How? Here's the formula:
adapter://username:password#hostname:port/database?options
Locally, I'm using Postgres with peer authentication: the database server assumes the same username that I'm using in my OS, username is covered, password is useless. Local machine is assumed when no host is given, although I can't tell if it tries to communicate via TCP/IP or Unix domain sockets, so I'm fine without host.
So the configuration you refer to as "shown in the first guide" is reasonable: it contains a minimum amount of settings and allows you to create more environments quite easily.
Heroku doesn't create a database.yml on rails 4.2 because as of that version rails will detect the presence of that environment variable and use it to configure the database connection.
Adding
production:
url: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %>
Makes it a little more obvious what is happening for those who might not be aware of it but won't change the behaviour. The configuring rails guide has more info in interactions between database.yml and DATABASE_URL if you need it.
To connect with ActiveRecord without Rails (e.g. sinatra):
url = URI.parse(ENV['DATABASE_URL'])
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
encoding: 'unicode',
pool: 5,
timeout: 5000,
reconnect: true,
adapter: url.scheme,
host: url.host,
database: url.path.sub(%r{^/}, ''),
username: url.user,
password: url.password
)
I recently switched a relatively new rails app from sqlite3 to Amazon RDS and configured my database.yml file to use the RDS database in the production environment only.
But now, whenever I try to do any local action on my database (e.g. rails server, rails console, rake db:migrate, etc.) it does that action to the production DB on Amazon's servers rather than my local sqlite3 DB, which is my development DB.
# database.yml
development:
adapter: sqlite3
database: db/development.sqlite3
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
test:
adapter: sqlite3
database: db/test.sqlite3
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
production:
adapter: mysql2
host: mydb.mydbhost.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com
reconnect: false
database: mydb
username: myusername
password: mypassword
What am I doing wrong?
UPDATE: Here's my environment.rb file:
# environment.rb
# Load the rails application
require File.expand_path('../application', __FILE__)
# Heroku environment variables for local use
heroku_env = File.join(Rails.root, 'config', 'heroku_env.rb')
load(heroku_env) if File.exists?(heroku_env)
# Initialize the rails application
Myapp::Application.initialize!
your not using productions settings
try
rails s -e production
or
RAILS_ENV=production rails s
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
Figured out the problem after taking a day to get away from it. It's a silly mistake on my part, but I thought I'd post the solution in case someone else encounters a similar issue.
As you can see from my environment.rb file above, I have a heroku_env.rb file, which contains all of my heroku-specific environment variables on my local machine for development purposes. In that file, I declared a ENV['DATABASE_URL'] variable, which links to my Amazon RDS database. Deleting this from the file solved the problem!
Thanks to everyone who offered answers to help!