Issue with rake heroku:create_config command about heroku_san HOT 4 CLOSED

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

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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

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

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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.

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