How to export table from heroku production database locally to excel from console using Ruby?
Connect to your Heroku database by using
heroku pg:psql
Then run the sql command to get the csv file e.g.
\copy (SELECT * FROM users) TO dump.csv CSV DELIMITER ','
Use \q to exit.
After executing the commands dump.csv would have been created in your local environment
There's a couple of option here.
Firstly, you could wrap up some ruby code into a rake task that creates the Excel spreadsheet and then spits it onto S3 for you to pick up later. This would be run via the CLI:
heroku run rake export_data
OR
You could spin up a Postgres console heroku pg:psql
and export your data to a CSV locally directly with a query such as those discussed here: http://ru05team.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/export-postgresql-into-csv.html
Note: pg:psql
gives you a full interactive PSQL session with your production database as if it were local. Be careful when messing direct with a production database.