I've made a correct Procfile but I dont see a worker dyno in the dashboard

Question

Im trying to deploy a very simple bot to heroku but I cant set the worker dyno because it doesnt show up on the dashboard, even though I have a Procfile with just one line it: worker: node app.js

Brecciate

Was your build successful? Do you see your app's code when you run heroku run bash? – Contradistinguish

@DamienMATHIEU When I run heroku run bash it executes without errors, it doesnt print anything it just gives me the bash prompt to type. On 'ls' I see every file/folder except the Procfile, should it be invisible or is this the problem? – Brecciate

If the Procfile isn't there, it means you haven't committed. It may be in gitignore, or you didn't commit the change. – Contradistinguish

@DamienMATHIEU I did git add . - git commit -m "Heroku stuff" - git push heroku master and it just tells me everything is up to date. It does this everytime actually, so you might be right, but not because I forgot, rather because for some reason its not detecting any changes whatsoever – Brecciate

Answer 1

So the issue was that Heroku only builds off the master branch and I was developing on a different branch. I solved this by assigning my current branch as the master branch git push heroku YourDifferentBranchHere:master

Brecciate

Answer 2

Same issue, I resolved it from Heroku documentation:

Scaling a process type Heroku runs one web dyno for you automatically, but other process types don’t start by default. To launch a worker, you need to scale it up to one dyno:

heroku ps:scale worker=1
Scaling worker processes... done, now running 1

Turbojet

Answer 3

I had the same issue, correct code but worker didn't appear. For me, the issue was that my Procfile was named "procfile" and not "Procfile"

Seen

Thanks for this. The guide I was following specifically said to name it procfile and I could not figure out why it wasn't being recognized. – Cardholder

Answer 4

The issue was easily solved for me once I changed the procfile name to Procfile. After this I wrote the following code:

worker: node bot.js
$ heroku ps:scale web=1 worker=5
heroku ps:scale web=1 worker=5

Then I refreshed the page, it worked perfectly for me.

Ozieozkum