cloned project from github. heroku does not work

Question

I cloned a project from github over to my desktop. I used to work on it form my laptop.

However, on laptop heroku does not seem to work for this app eventhough i have i

Answer 1

First do:

git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:{my-project-name}.git

Where you replace {my-project-name} with the name of the Heroku application as it appears in your Heroku account. For example, if your Heroku account says you have an application named flowing-water-397, then the line would be:

git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:flowing-water-397.git

Then Git and the Heroku gem will know that this Git repo is connected to a Heroku.com application. Then you can do things such as:

git push heroku master
heroku open

Finally, learn a little bit more about Git Remotes.

Answer 2

I believe I get the error No app specified. Run this command from an app folder or specify which app to use with --app when I run any ambiguous heroku commands. Example:

heroku logs

It's ambiguous because I have multiple remote repositories specified in my project's .git/config file. The solution for me is simply to specify the remote repository. Example:

heroku logs --remote staging

In the above line --remote staging corresponds to the following in my project's .git/config file:

[remote "staging"]
    url = git@heroku.accountname:foo-bar-1234.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/staging/*

I hope this helps you.. if not, then perhaps it may help someone else!

Answer 3

In addition to the git remote add ... that @Justice mentioned, I also needed to run

git config heroku.remote heroku

(solution found here)

Answer 4

When I had this issue it was because I created more than one remote app on heroku.

To remove an existing remote app from heroku use:

git remote rm heroku

then go back and use heroku create to start the process over using the correct app name heroku gives you.

Solution found here: solution