Issue with running a migration on heroku

Question

This is a follow up to this post Rails, data structure and performance, where I have attempted to create a Counter Cache on Rails. To not have it to default 0, I have also added updating the column to the existing count value in the database.

Running rake db:migrate on development works fine, even though it took a few hours to run.

But running the migration with heroku is giving me the following error :

==  AddVotesCount: migrating ==================================================
-- add_column(:options, :votes_count, :integer, {:default=>0})
   -> 0.0196s
/Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `initialize': Operation timed out - connect(2) (Errno::ETIMEDOUT)
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `open'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `block in connect'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:44:in `timeout'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:87:in `timeout'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `connect'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:637:in `do_start'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:626:in `start'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:172:in `transmit'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:64:in `execute'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:33:in `execute'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/resource.rb:51:in `get'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/client.rb:554:in `process'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/client.rb:532:in `get'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/client.rb:290:in `read'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/client.rb:311:in `each'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/command/run.rb:50:in `rake'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/command.rb:114:in `run'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/bin/heroku:14:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/bin/heroku:19:in `load'
    from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/bin/heroku:19:in `<main>'

I have tried a few different things but seem lost at this point, any help appreciated ! The strange thing is that the error message does not always come up instantly, sometimes it takes 10/20 minutes as if the migration was running.

Thanks

Update : here is the content of my migration file :

class AddVotesCount < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    add_column :options, :votes_count, :integer, :default => 0
    Option.all.each do |option|
       option.votes_count = option.votes.count
       option.save!
     end
  end

  def self.down
    remove_column :options, :votes_count
  end
end

Update 2 : This works in staging environment with heroku... but not in production

After a few modifications, the migration code is now :

def self.up
    add_column :options, :votes_count, :integer, :default => 0
    Option.reset_column_information
    Option.find_each do |option|
      Option.reset_counters option.id, :votes
    end

and the error is :

==  AddVotesCount: migrating ==================================================
-- add_column(:options, :votes_count, :integer, {:default=>0})
-> 0.0224s
/Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (SocketError)
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `open'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `block in connect'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:44:in `timeout'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:87:in `timeout'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:644:in `connect'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:637:in `do_start'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:626:in `start'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:172:in `transmit'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:64:in `execute'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:33:in `execute'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/resource.rb:51:in `get'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/client.rb:554:in `process'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/client.rb:532:in `get'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/client.rb:290:in `read'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/client.rb:311:in `each'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/command/run.rb:50:in `rake'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/lib/heroku/command.rb:114:in `run'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/heroku-2.8.4/bin/heroku:14:in `<top (required)>'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/bin/heroku:19:in `load'
        from /Users/ebellity/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/bin/heroku:19:in `<main>'

Answer 1

For those who might face the same error, I got in touch with heroku and they told me to run the migration with this:

$ heroku run bash --app appname

then

$ rake db:migrate

For some reason, it worked...