herokuNotes.txt

1. Comment out default db url, user, and password.
2. Initialize new git repo at project root with git init.
3. git add .
4. git commit -m "init"
5. heroku create
6. git push heroku master (this will take a while)
7. From project root run: heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev
8. heroku config | grep HEROKU_POSTGRESQL to see your created databases
9. heroku pg:promote <NAME_OF_DB_TO_PROMOTE>
10. heroku addons:add pgbackups
11. heroku pgbackups:restore DATABASE_URL '<link.to.db.dump>'
12. heroku open


NOTES:
-Import db dump from this url: https://s3.amazonaws.com/carl_pratt_sql_dump/twitter_clone_dump.sql (You can use any hosting service with public access to html download link)

-If you want to rename the project on heroku.com, you will need to remove the git remote and reset it to the remote name matches the new project name.
git remote rm heroku
git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:yourappname.git

Helpful links:

-Creating a new DB
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgresql#provisioning-the-add-on

-Importing sql dump
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-import-export#import