How do I replace the Heroku gem with Heroku Toolbelt?

Question

I know that there are closely related question to mine but they did not help me.

I'm learning the whole rails, gem, git, heroku concept and liking it a lot. When I issued heroku command line actions (Ubuntu linux) I received warnings that the gem was deprecated and I should install the toolbelt. I ran the full wget install of the tool belt:

wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

But now when I use the heroku command line I still get the deprecated warning. I suspect I have to get rid of the heroku gem but I'm not sure how to do that ? I want to be sure to do it correctly so it's not later loaded again via bundler. Thank you.

Answer 1

The uninstall command will remove any gem. In this case, you want to use the following:

gem uninstall heroku

Answer 2

I had issues getting Toolbelt to work. I am running OSX so my solution may not work for your Ubuntu linux setup. I still thought I might share just in case. Here are the steps I used to get it to work:

1. Remove the heroku gem by running gem uninstall heroku. It did ask if I wanted to remove executables: heroku. Be sure to choose yes.

2. Go to [https://toolbelt.heroku.com/][1] and download / install the Toolbelt app.

3. On the Toolbelt page it mentioned that /usr/local/heroku/bin will be added to your PATH. I was not seeing this and was not sure if it is becuase I am running zsh instead of bash. I went ahead and opened my .zshrc file and added it to my PATH.