Issue with rake heroku:create_config command

[3en]

I get the following error after installing the latest gem.

macbook-pro:cvmongo Ben$ sudo rake heroku:create_config --trace
(in /Users/Ben/Dropbox/Web/cvmongo)
** Invoke heroku:create_config (first_time)
** Execute heroku:create_config
Copied example config to config/heroku.yml
/Users/Ben/Dropbox/Web/cvmongo/config/heroku.yml
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (127): [ /Users/Ben/Dropbox/Web/cvmongo/config/her...]
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:995:in sh' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1010:incall'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1010:in sh' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1094:insh'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/heroku_san-1.0.8/lib/heroku_san/tasks.rb:111
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:inexecute'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:inexecute'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:597:in invoke_with_call_chain' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:insynchronize'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in invoke_with_call_chain' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:583:ininvoke'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2051:in invoke_task' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:intop_level'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:intop_level'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in standard_exception_handling' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2023:intop_level'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2001:in run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:instandard_exception_handling'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:19:inload'
/usr/bin/rake:19
macbook-pro:cvmongo

[bryan-ash]

Ben, is this trace getting mangled by markdown? I'm not seeing what the error is. We might have more luck if you paste it into a Gist and link it

[rahearn]

This looks like a problem I just ran into. Had to do with an unset EDITOR environment variable. Everything ran smoothly when I ran EDITOR=vim rake heroku:create_config

[bryan-ash]

@rahearn What is the error? I cannot see it amidst the noise in the original post.

[rahearn]

On OSX it appears that the environment variable EDITOR is unset by default. That causes the last step of the heroku:create_config task sh("#{ENV['EDITOR']} #{HEROKU_CONFIG_FILE}") to fail because you're really just calling sh("#{HEROKU_CONFIG_FILE}")

My workaround ensures that EDITOR is set before calling rake, but a more defensive solution would probably check if EDITOR is set, launch if it is, or if not just print a message that the user should then edit config/heroku.yml by hand.