Multiple heroku accounts

Question

I\'m having trouble when working with multiple Heroku accounts on my computer.

The thing is that it\'s worked great before by switching accounts with the heroku gem.

Answer 1

The Heroku plugin https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-accounts has been deprecated. Heroku now maintains its own at https://github.com/heroku/heroku-accounts. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to store project-by-project which account it should be using so you need to run

$ heroku accounts:set account_name

each time you want to use the Heroku command-line tool.

Quick solution for people with access to the bash shell: make a local bin directory (it's already there in Rails applications) and create bin/heroku there. Contents:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/heroku accounts:set account_name
/usr/bin/heroku $*

(replace "project_name" as appropriate) Then run

$ chmod +x bin/heroku

You can then run

$ bin/heroku run console

and it will automatically use the right Heroku account for you. Better still is to add ./bin to your path so you're back to just running:

$ heroku run console