Heroku run console get “Timeout awaiting process”

Question

No way to have console wired with Heroku lately:

lsoave@ubuntu:~/rails/github/gitwatcher$ heroku run console
Running console attached to terminal... 
Timeout         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem on the ISP FastWeb, which is an ISP here in Italy. Based on my Googling, it appears that they block port 5000.

To get around it for now, I am running the following:

heroku run:detached rake db:migrate

That tells it to run without waiting to connect to my machine on port 5000. Then, you can examine the logs for your process you just kicked off. (The heroku command will tell you this after you run it):

heroku logs -p run.1

That tells it to output the logs for the running process. But I found that the logs command was exiting even though my process was still running. To get around that, you can add "-t" if you want to "tail" the logs:

heroku logs -p run.1 -t   

You'll know your process is done when you see something like this in the logs:

2012-10-14T15:36:41+00:00 heroku[run.1]: Process exited with status 0
2012-10-14T15:36:41+00:00 heroku[run.1]: State changed from up to complete

I'm sure someone could whip up a script that would

1. Run the given heroku command with run:detached
2. Examine the output to determine what its process name was (run.1, run.2, etc)
3. run heroku logs -p run.1 -t and show me the output
4. exit the logs process when it sees something like State changed from up to complete