Open Ruby on Rails project from another computer

Question

I'm still a beginner in developing Ruby on Rails apps. I've developed a project on my old laptop. And I want to open it on my new one. When I download the project from github, I am not able to perform "heroku open". I receive the following error: "No app specified".

And if I write git push heroku master, it says "Not a git repository".

Can you help me please? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

1. Pull the project down from GitHub using git clone
2. Change into the project directory using cd [project_name]
3. Install the gems using bundle install
4. Create the database rake db:create
5. Run the migrations rake db:migrate
6. Read this thread on someone with the same error message
7. Read this thread

Let me know if this solves your problems.

Answer 2

First create a Heroku app

heroku create

This will create a remote Git repository called "heroku". You can check for this by using

git remote -v

Then, deploy your app to heroku with

git push heroku master

You can get full details on the Heroku Docs: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git