Heroku db:push doesnt work. Says it needs taps installed even after taps has been installed

4
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I can't seem to get heroku to db:push, even though I have installed taps. It doesnt seem to believe me. I also checked and found a folder here: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/taps-0.2.23/

UM4345s-MacBook-Pro:photosite $ sudo gem install taps
Password:
Successfully installed rack-1.1.0
Successfully installed sinatra-0.9.2
Successfully installed thor-0.9.9
Successfully installed
rest-client-1.2.0 Successfully
installed sequel-3.0.0 Successfully
installed taps-0.2.23 6 gems installed
Installing ri documentation for
rack-1.1.0... Installing ri
documentation for sinatra-0.9.2...
Installing ri documentation for
thor-0.9.9... Installing ri
documentation for rest-client-1.2.0...
Installing ri documentation for
sequel-3.0.0... Installing ri
documentation for taps-0.2.23...
Installing RDoc documentation for
rack-1.1.0... Installing RDoc
documentation for sinatra-0.9.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for
thor-0.9.9... Installing RDoc
documentation for rest-client-1.2.0...
Installing RDoc documentation for
sequel-3.0.0... Installing RDoc
documentation for taps-0.2.23...
UM4345s-MacBook-Pro:photosite $heroku db:push
Install the Taps gem
to use db commands. On most systems
this will be: sudo gem install taps
UM4345s-MacBook-Pro:photosite $ sudo gem install taps
Password: Successfully installed
taps-0.2.23 1 gem installed Installing
ri documentation for taps-0.2.23...
Installing RDoc documentation for
taps-0.2.23...
UM4345s-MacBook-Pro:photosite$ $heroku db:push
Install the Taps gem
to use db commands. On most systems
this will be: sudo gem install taps

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ruby-on-railsheroku
I have this problem as well - on ubuntu. It's rather sad that heroku offers no other way of getting data into your db (that I can tell) and that this method is so unreliable. – phil

3 Answers

3
votes

This can be fixed by upgrading your heroku gem with

gem update heroku

You might need a sudo as well depending on your environment.

2
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Is the 'gem' for the current user the same as the run that's run from sudo? I've had a problem with that when using REE or ruby installed from macports. Quick check to compare:

which gem
sudo which gem

gem list | grep tap
sudo gem list | grep tap

It might be worth a try to purge both the taps and heroku gem and reinstall them.

0
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Are you using RVM? If so it's easy to be using the wrong gemset and not know it.