how to run a simple file on heroku

Question

say I've got my rails app on github and am deploying the github repo on heroku.

I've got a situation where I have a simple text file with bunch of words (it is in my github repo). I want to insert these words (using a simple ruby program) into a database. Instead of using the tap command, is it possible in heroku to just run my simple ruby program and insert the words into the database...or maybe just show them on the terminal?

maybe confusing but basically I want to know how to run simple ruby script from heroku command line?

Answer 1

With cedar, you can run bash:

heroku run bash

Answer 2

Put your ruby script in a bin directory and git push it to Heroku. Now you can execute a shell command in the heroku console.

For example, if your Ruby script is bin/foo.rb, you can run the following command in the Heroku console:

`ruby bin/foo.rb`

Note the use of backticks.