Foreman installed by heroku toolbelt on windows can't be found

Question

I simply followed the getting started with nodejs tutorial from Heroku. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs#declare-process-types-with-procfile

Answer 1

After installing Heroku toolbelt, I was getting weird errors about required modules when running foreman start. Adding the ruby bin directory to path, and reopening the shell window did not work for me. It seems that foreman was never installed! When I attempted to uninstall foreman, ruby told me it was not installed. So I ran gem install foreman, and 0.77 was installed. One gotcha, I had to open the shell to install the foreman gem as Administrator. Maybe that is how the Heroku toolbelt seems to not have installed properly the first time. Running foreman start seemed to do something after it was installed (naturally).