Heroku specify which app to run command on?

Question

In my git repo I have added two different heroku remotes to separate apps (named testheroku and officialheroku).

I am able to push to them separately by specifying their remote name (i.e. git push officialheroku master) but when try to use heroku run python manage.py syncdb it only runs syncdb for testheroku.

How do I make heroku run syncdb on officialheroku?

Answer 1

From the Heroku docs:

heroku run python manage.py syncdb --app officialheroku

As an FYI, the general usage syntax from the CLI is as follows:

heroku COMMAND [--app APP] [command-specific-options]

Answer 2

There are two ways to do this:

• heroku --app heroku_app_name (where the app name is the foo part in foo.herokuapp.com)
• heroku --remote git_remote_name (where the remote name is one of the items that shows up in the list when you run git remote)

Answer 3

If you want to use the git remote names you've defined in the CLI you pass it explicitly using the -r parameter

heroku run python manage.py syncdb -r testheroku|officialheroku