GSWD Heroku Django manage.py issue - django

Question

I worked my way through a great django tutorial online, but am having an issue with the final heroku deployment.
Here is the django tutorial:
http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/en/lessons/introduction-and-launch/
The issue I have is with the last call to heroku:
heroku python manage.py syncdb
Here is the error I get:
(blog-venv)vagrant#precise64:/vagrant/projects/microblog$ heroku run python manage.py syncdb
Running `python manage.py syncdb` attached to terminal... up, run.2530
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 443, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 232, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in handle
return self.handle_noargs(**options)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 57, in handle_noargs
cursor = connection.cursor()
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/__init__.py", line 306, in cursor
cursor = self.make_debug_cursor(self._cursor())
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/postgresql_psycopg2/base.py", line 177, in _cursor
self.connection = Database.connect(**conn_params)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 178, in connect
return _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, async=async)
psycopg2.OperationalError: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
(blog-venv)vagrant#precise64:/vagrant/projects/microblog$
Any thoughts

Answer 1

As far as I know ( git intermediate level knowledge ) If you forgot to add locals.py to the .gitignore file and committed it then the git repository will have the locals.py file still in it .
You have to remove the file from git repository since it was included in previous commits.
git rm --cached microblog/settings/local.py
Then add microblog/settings/local.py to .gitignore and commit the changes.
Once heroku sees the correct DATABASES setting . Then syncdb works fine
DATABASES = {'default' : dj_database_url.config() }

Answer 2

did you add:
microblog/settings/local.py
to the .gitignore file ?
if that doesn't work try commenting out the DATABASES = {....} bit in the local.py file and see if that works
https://github.com/kennethlove/gswd-transcripts/blob/master/lesson-01.md