Change from SQLite to PostgreSQL in a fresh Rails project

Question

I have a rails app that's databases are in SQLite (The dev and production). Since I am moving to heroku, I want to convert my database to PostgreSQL.

Anyways, I heard that the local, development, database does not need to be changed from SQLite, so I don't need to change that, however, how do I go about changing the production environment from SQLite to PostgreSQL?

Has anyone ever done this before and can help?

P.S. I'm not sure what exactly this process is called, but I've heard about migrating the database from SQLite to PostgreSQL, is that what needs to be done?

Answer 1

You can change your database.yml to this instead of using the out of the box sqlite one:

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: utf8
  database: project_development
  pool: 5
  username: 
  password:

test: &TEST
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: utf8
  database: project_test
  pool: 5
  username: 
  password:

production:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: utf8
  database: project_production
  pool: 5
  username: 
  password:

cucumber:
  <<: *TEST