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Learning Heroku Postgres

By : Patrick Rafael de Oliveira Espake
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Learning Heroku Postgres

By: Patrick Rafael de Oliveira Espake

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Heroku Postgres
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Keyword List
Index

Creating a new app


Many features in Heroku can be implemented in two different ways; the first is via the Heroku client, which is installed through the Heroku Toolbelt, and the other is through the web Heroku dashboard.

In this section, you will learn how to use both of them.

Via the Heroku dashboard

Access the website https://dashboard.heroku.com and login. After that, click on the plus sign at the top of the dashboard to create a new app and the following screen will be shown:

Creating an app

In this step, you should provide the name of your application. In the preceding example, it's learning-heroku-postgres-app. You can choose a name you prefer. Select which region you want to host it on; two options are available: United States or Europe.

Note

Heroku doesn't allow duplicated names for applications; each application name supplied is global and, after it has been used once, it will not be available for another person. It can happen that you choose a name that is already being used. In this case...