ENV["DATABASE_URL"] will be the URL that the database written to database.yml lives on.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Neil <[email protected]> wrote: > We've many apps on Heroku (read about 30) of which roughly ten are > production apps. > > Therefore I've been looking at creating a little management app to > backup all the production apps on an hourly cron (and thus only pay > for cron once). Question is, using the above rake tasks, what URL > should be used for a specific db? Currently I'm using > ENV["SHARED_DATABASE_URL"] but I keep getting back that it's a bad > URI. > > Does anyone have any pointers on this? Hopefully if I get it working > I can open it up to folks > > N > > On Nov 19, 12:22 am, "Andrew C." <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got a lot on my plate right now, but I'm not opposed to getting > > it into a usable state for other people once I get some spare time. > > > > On Nov 17, 2:10 am, Trevor Turk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 16, 6:44 pm, "Andrew C." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I spin up an EC2 instance from my cron job. The EC2 instance > captures > > > > and downloads the backup to S3, then shuts itself down. Works well > so > > > > far. Obviously, it's not free, but it's freaking cheap. > > > > > Any chance of open-sourcing some of that code? It's an interesting > > > idea. I'm still hoping there's an easier way, but this is certainly an > > > idea! > > > > > - Trevor > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<heroku%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
