How to avoid the --app option with heroku CLI?

Question

I\'m tired of entering the name of my app each time I run a heroku command in the terminal:

heroku run rake db:migrate --app myapp
heroku run rake d         


        

Answer 1

heroku doesn't require the --app argument when it knows which app it should talk to. This occurs when there is exactly one Git remote pointing to Heroku for a repository.

You don't appear to have any remotes pointing to Heroku. Run

heroku git:remote --app myapp

to add such a remote. Once that's done you should be able to omit the --app argument for heroku commands on that particular repository.

If you prefer to do this yourself you can run

git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:myapp.git

Note that it's possible to have multiple Heroku remotes, e.g. if you have a staging and a production app. In this case you will also have to provide the --app argument to specify which one should be used.