heroku restart app code example

Example 1: heroku restart

heroku ps:restart web -a <my app name>

Example 2: heroku restart rails server

heroku restart -a app_name

# The -a is the same as --app

Example 3: how to stop a heroku app

$ heroku ps:scale web=0
Scaling web processes... done, now running 0
//once ready to go back online:
heroku ps:scale web=1

Example 4: kill dyno process heroku

$ heroku ps:stop run.1
Stopping run.1 process... done