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Created November 22, 2013 16:27
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A simple bash script to replicate your heroku database onto your development database. Stick it in to your scripts folder in a rails app and chmod+x it. Then you can run ./script/replicate and debug any production issues with the production data.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "Running: heroku pgbackups:capture --remote production"
heroku pgbackups:capture --remote production
echo "curl'ing the latest.dump"
curl -o latest.dump `heroku pgbackups:url --remote production`
echo "restoring the dump"
pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U postgres -d project_name_development latest.dump
echo "removing latest.dump"
rm latest.dump
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