Unable to update from Rails console, changes lost after closing console

[rebase-master]

Hi,

I had to update the city-state gem to get the latest data. I ran CS.update from Rails console and checked the results. I got updated data but as soon as I close Rails console on Heroku, the changes were lost.

Am I missing a step here? Please provide some assistance ASAP.

Thank you.

[joemsak]

Same problem on heroku here. It will update my local rails server through rails console though.

So far my guess is that it doesn't have write permissions to the csv file, as I believe heroku only allows writing to tmp/, which is ephemeral and wouldn't work for this gem

@steady-daddy here is what I did to fix it for me on heroku due to unwritable directories

• Forked the gem to my own github account
• Checked out a new branch from master
• Added the gem to my project's Gemfile with the path option specified to my cloned fork
• Ran CS.update from rails console
• Added, committed, and pushed the changes on my fork
• Changed my Gemfile to grab from my branch on github (path won't work on heroku unless you bundle it in a project subdirectory of course, which I simply did not do for no particular reason)
• Pushed to heroku, it now uses my branch on my fork which I can keep updated as needed