Multiple apps in git remotes when trying to access rails console - heroku

I have two git branches, staging and production, and I deployed them on Heroku in the same Heroku acccount. Suppose my app names are app1.heroku-app.com and app2.heroku-app.com and the remote names are heroku-staging and heroku-production,respectively. I deployed both apps on Heroku. After I login to Heroku from the console using heroku login and then try to access a Rails console using heroku run rails c, I get this message :
▸ multiple apps in git remotes
▸ remotes: heroku-staging heroku-production
How can I access a console?

If there's only one Heroku remote, heroku can infer which you want. When there are multiple (or if you want to access an application that doesn't have a remote in this Git repo, or when you're not in a Git repo at all), you need to use the --app option to specify which application you want a console on.
$ heroku --help
Usage: heroku COMMAND [--app APP] [command-specific-options]
$ heroku run rails c --app app1
$ heroku run rails c --app app2

In addition to being able to specify the app as a per-command flag, if you'd like for there to be a default environment, setting the environment variable HEROKU_APP to the app you want will make it so that heroku commands don't rely on git config.
$ heroku logs
› Error: Multiple apps in git remotes
...
$ export HEROKU_APP=app1
$ heroku logs
2018-12-31T03:56:34.888350+00:00 app[web.1]: 1.2.3.4 ...

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How to add -a -app in my Websockets file?

I've got a problem when I upload my project on Heroku. I've trying changing value of socket.io and MongoUrl, but I get this error:
Error: Missing required flag:
› -a, --app APP app to run command against
This has nothing to do with any of your files. It's an argument that you must provide to the Heroku CLI itself, e.g.
heroku config:set SOME_VARIABLE=some_value -a myapp
where myapp is the name of your Heroku app.
The -a / --app argument is required when heroku can't figure out what app to connect to, either bcause there is no Heroku remote configured or because there is more than one Heroku remote configured.
See also How to avoid the --app option with heroku CLI?

Building a dev environment in Heroku for Phoenix

I'm trying to set up Phoenix 1.2 so that I have two Heroku environments: one for dev/testing (which will keep the this-app-12345.herokuapp.com url), and a standard production environment.
Currently, I set up my app the usual way:
mix phoenix.new my_app
cd my_app
mix ecto.create
mix ecto.migrate
git init && git add . && git commit -m "Initial commit"
heroku create
This gives me a Heroku instance:
Creating app... done, ⬢ first-instance-12345
https://first-instance-12345.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/first-instance-12345.git
I then add the buildpacks, change the config/ files and run git push heroku master and everything works.
Now I'd like to create another Heroku instance, to which I can also deploy. If I run heroku create again, I get:
Creating app... done, ⬢ second-instance-23456
https://second-instance-23456.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/second-instance-23456.git
If I replace the url in prod.exs with the new instance...
config :my_app, MyApp.Endpoint,
http: [port: {:system, "PORT"}],
url: [scheme: "https", host: "second-instance-23456.herokuapp.com", port: 443], force_ssl: [rewrite_on: [:x_forwarded_proto]],
...and then commit and run git push heroku master, it will still deploy to first-instance-12345.herokuapp.com, which isn't what I want.
Re-running buildpacks doesn't help either.
$ heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/HashNuke/heroku-buildpack-elixir
▸ The buildpack https://github.com/HashNuke/heroku-buildpack-elixir is already set on your app.
$ heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/gjaldon/phoenix-static-buildpack
▸ The buildpack https://github.com/gjaldon/phoenix-static-buildpack is already set on your app.
Is there a standard method (or any method) to get Phoenix to deploy to multiple heroku environments? (And hopefully specify which one/s on deploy)
The standard way to deploy an app to multiple Heroku apps is to add multiple remotes to the repo and push to the one you want to deploy to. Making that change to config/prod.exs will have no effect on where the app is deployed.
Here's how to add the two remotes:
$ git remote add first https://git.heroku.com/first-instance-12345.git
$ git remote add second https://git.heroku.com/second-instance-23456.git
Now you can deploy to the first one using:
$ git push first master
and to the second using:
$ git push second master
Certainly the best way to do so is to have two different instances as #dogbert wrote.
Also remember about changing Procfile for heroku, because you want to run app using different environments eg.
# Procfile for prod
web: MIX_ENV=prod mix phoenix.server
# Procfile for dev
web: MIX_ENV=dev mix phoenix.server
For both environments you would need to apply migrations:
heroku run MIX_ENV=<env> ecto.migrate

How can I deploy to a specific app with heroku docker:release?

Using the heroku docker:release command, how can I specify which app to release to? I can't see from any documentation whether there's any switch for this purpose.
Heroku commands take their context from the directory you are in when you run them.
Go into the directory from where you did heroku create then run heroku docker:release.
If you haven't used heroku create, then you can specify the app name with the --app <APP NAME> command line parameter. for instance, if you were to release to the app named f00 you would type:
heroku docker:release --app f00

Heroku toolbelt command requires app-name

How do you specify the app you want when you log in to Heroku from the command line?
I was trying to check the logs so when I first logged in I tried:
Heroku logs
this then told me:
! No app specified.
! Run this command from an app folder or specify which app to use with --app <app name>
I then tried:
heroku --app my-appname
but i get:
`--app` is not a heroku command.
I have tried all combinations.
You still need to include the command:
heroku logs --app app-name
You can also use -a instead of --app:
heroku logs -a app-name
Another option is to associate your (git) project to Heroku. From heroku open - no app specified:
$ cd app-dir
$ heroku git:remote -a app-name
$ heroku logs
Try this:
heroku git:remote -a [app_name]
This should allow you to call commands without having to specify which app you want them to be called on.
You could try adding --app app-name after you sentence.
Example: $ heroku domains:add your-domain --app app-name
Heroku CLI automatically detects the app name by scanning the git remotes for the current working copy.
If you're not in the app's local git clone, you need to specify the app name:
heroku logs --app app-name
or
heroku logs -a app-name
or by specifying the remote name:
heroku logs --remote production
You can reference this part of the Heroku documentation:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/using-the-cli#app-commands
From my tests the Heroku CLI will infer the app from the current Git remote.
So to change to the "test" app:
git config heroku.remote test
And to come back to the default "heroku" application, which is probably your production app:
git config heroku.remote heroku
Not sure this is a good idea though...
For future solution seekers-
The error says a possible solution.
Run this command from an app folder
cd to the app directory root, then run your desired command.

Heroku CLI: How to reference an app by custom domain? (Example in documentation not working)

Heroku's documentation on CLI says to do this (link):
If you have multiple heroku remotes or want to execute an app command outside of a local working copy, you can specify an explicit app name, domain, or git remote as follows:
$ heroku info --app myapp
$ heroku info --app www.example.com
$ heroku info --remote staging
However, I'm unable to get that second one to work. This is what I get:
$ heroku info --app foo
=== foo
[...]
$ heroku domains --app foo
Domain names for foo.herokuapp.com:
foo.example.com
$ heroku info --app foo.example.com
! Resource not found
At the very least, the documentation seems incorrect. But is it possible to reference an app by one of its custom domains another way?
Thanks!
Yep, I concur that - using the latest Heroku CLI all the methods work except using the domain name. Is there a particular reason why you want to use that way if the other ways work for you?

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