Rails : Database Seed

Question

I have a rails app in which there is a lot of data in the database. I have come to realise that on heroku only PostgreSQL is supported. Now my database is MySQL. Is there any way I can get rails to copy all the data from the database into the seed file without me having to type everything out by hand?

Answer 1

No rails does not have the ability to do that.

You can look into the mysqltopostgres gem. This blog entry covers the usage pretty well. http://onestoryeveryday.com/mysql-to-postgresql-conversionmigration.html

Answer 2

Heroku supports MySQL with the ClearDB addon.