Deploying to Heroku - Mongoose or Mongodb bug? about hackathon-starter HOT 4 CLOSED

@miguelcarvajal When you are running project locally, you said it works right? If so, that means you have MongoDB running locally as well. When you deploy to Heroku, there is no MongoDB available on localhost. So for that you need to setup an account with MongoLab or MongoHQ. It's super simple.

Once you create an account replace localhost string in secrets.js with:

mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds027739.mongolab.com:27739/<dbname>

You can then use it for development and production if you like. I prefer to use localhost database during developing simply because I don't need to have internet connection all the time.

I will add this to FAQ as well as how to create an account with MongoLab.

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It works! Thanks man!

PS: For beginners like me adding this to FAQ will be great.

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Updated FAQ.

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Hi Sahat.

Thanks for making available such an amazing boilerplate for Nodejs Applications.
I have set up the project on my local machine (which works perfectly) and deployed to Heroku as well. However, the heroku deployment fails even though I have MongoLab set up with the MONGOLAB_URI pointing to the db connection string on my MongoLab account.

Still, I get an application error each time I attempt to access the application.

What could I be doing wrong?

Looking forward to your response.

Thanks.

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