Heroku Without Toolbelt On Windows

Question

Would like to be able to push to, and clone from, Heroku without the toolbelt.

I've got Win10x64, Rails 2.4.4, Ruby 2.2.3

Answer 1

The answer is to link to Heroku using ssh:

1. You need to download & install git
2. You need to generate your SSH key
3. You need to "link" your Heroku app to your computer's SSH key
4. You should then be able to push/clone from Heroku

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This answer helped get it working: https://serverfault.com/a/198709/241166

You have to set the HOME path of your ssh before performing ssh-keygen -t rsa (this actually doesn't seem to be the case; you should be able to browse to the required output folder & run ssh-keygen -t rsa):

ssh has its keys in c:/Users/[username]/.ssh by default.

This will set the .pub file, which you'll be able to open using a text editor (notepad will do):

You then need to copy the contents of the generated .pub file to Heroku's Account Settings option:

If you need to remove Heroku from known_hosts, you'll want to use:

ssh-keygen -H -F heroku.com

ssh-keygen -R heroku.com

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Next, you need to authenticate with Heroku.

ssh -v git@heroku.com

This should then allow you to connect via SSH to Heroku from that system. It may say a permission denied error - you should be able to ignore that, cd to the folder where the git repo is stored, and perform push / commit:

That's how to connect via SSH to Heroku on Windows :)