DatabaseSyncer

This gem provides a rake task to simply sync the local Postgres database with the production database on Heroku. The gem in meant to be used on a Rails project.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'database_syncer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Requirements

Git remotes on the specific app this gem is included in are used to determine the app names for the heroku production and staging apps.

Remotes must be named as follows:

• heroku (for production which is the default)
• staging (for staging)

Usage

Sync the local database from the heroku production database:

rake db:sync:local

Sync the staging heroku database from the heroku production database:

rake db:sync:staging

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.