git push heroku master: Heroku push rejected, no Cedar-supported app detected

Question

I tried running:

$ git push heroku master    
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Total 7121 (delta 2300), reused 6879 (delta 2228)
 !     Heroku push rejected, no Cedar-supported app de         


        

Answer 1

My stupid error was to mispell requirements.txt as the erroneous requirments.txt. I didn't need setup.py.

Additionally I need to actually store the git repository in Github. Just creating it locally wasn't enough.