How to avoid the --app option with heroku CLI?

Question

I'm tired of entering the name of my app each time I run a heroku command in the terminal:

heroku run rake db:migrate --app myapp
heroku run rake db:seed --app myapp
heroku run rake sth:else --app myapp

The --app is very redundant and annoying, I didn't figured out where were the option to configure it globally once for the project.

Numen

Please run git remote -v. Each Git remote will have two URLs: one for pushing and one for fetching. How many Heroku remotes do you see? – Ferdelance

Yes I have to, both related to github, not heroku. – Numen

Answer 1

heroku doesn't require the --app argument when it knows which app it should talk to. This occurs when there is exactly one Git remote pointing to Heroku for a repository.

You don't appear to have any remotes pointing to Heroku. Run

heroku git:remote --app myapp

to add such a remote. Once that's done you should be able to omit the --app argument for heroku commands on that particular repository.

If you prefer to do this yourself you can run

git remote add heroku [email protected]:myapp.git

Note that it's possible to have multiple Heroku remotes, e.g. if you have a staging and a production app. In this case you will also have to provide the --app argument to specify which one should be used.

Ferdelance