Deploying the Web Scraper Rails app to Production & Setting Up Cron Jobs Discussion

I wish the linking of the database was a bit more clear. My app was pulling in the credential in the database.yml file instead of simply linking via the DATABASE_URL environment variable. I had to comment out the credentials and then add url: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %> to get it working. Too me a while to get this figured out, but Hatchbox.io isn't as seamless as presented in this video—there are missing steps.