Running bash on heroku won't work

Question

I am trying to run bash on heroku to test it out and it is failing

 $ heroku run bash
 ▸    Error: No app specified
 ▸    Usage: heroku run --ap         


        

Answer 1

I think you have two issues.

Firstly, you need to run bash within some app. You can either specify the app via the --app key as the help actually says or you can run this command inside the folder which has a heroku app initialized already. For connecting the folder to a heroku app - see this answer How to link a folder with an existing Heroku app.

Second, running a bash actually takes away one dyno from your app. So you need to have at least one dyno.