How to set up different databases per environment in Play 2.0?

Question

I\'d like my Play app to use different databases for test, local and production (production is Heroku) environments.

In application.conf I have:

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Answer 1

In Play 2 there aren't different config environments. Instead you just set or override the config parameters in the conf/application.conf file. One way to do it is on the play command line, like:

play -Ddb.default.driver=org.postgresql.Driver -Ddb.default.url=$DATABASE_URL ~run

You can also tell Play to use a different config file:

play -Dconfig.file=conf/prod.conf ~run

For an example Procfile for Heroku, see:
https://github.com/jamesward/play2bars/blob/scala-anorm/Procfile

More details in the Play Docs:
http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0/Configuration