Lifting a sails app on Heroku fails

Question

I'm not able to lift a Sails api application in a production environment on Heroku to connect against a mongolab db. This works well when running in a local setup. The Heroku logs shows the following...

`
/app/node_modules/mongodb/lib/server.js:235
        process.nextTick(function() { throw err; })
                                      ^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'close' of undefined
    at /app/node_modules/sails-mongo/lib/adapter.js:138:13
    at /app/node_modules/sails-mongo/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:187:20
    at /app/node_modules/sails-mongo/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:239:13
    at _arrayEach (/app/node_modules/sails-mongo/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:91:13)
    at _each (/app/node_modules/sails-mongo/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:82:13)
    at Object.async.forEachOf.async.eachOf (/app/node_modules/sails-mongo/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:238:9)
    at Object.async.forEach.async.each (/app/node_modules/sails-mongo/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:215:22)
    at Object.module.exports.adapter.teardown (/app/node_modules/sails-mongo/lib/adapter.js:137:22)
    at /app/node_modules/sails/lib/hooks/orm/index.js:244:19
    at /app/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:122:13
    at _each (/app/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:46:13)
    at Object.async.each (/app/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:121:9)
    at Sails.hook.teardown (/app/node_modules/sails/lib/hooks/orm/index.js:241:13)
    at Sails.g (events.js:260:16)
    at emitNone (events.js:67:13)
    at Sails.emit (events.js:166:7)
`

Running sails version 0.11.2

Sails-mongo version 0.11.4

The process.env variables has been added and verified

connection.js

`
mongodb: {
  adapter: 'sails-mongo',
  url : process.env.CONNECTION_URL,
  host: process.env.DB_HOST,
  port: process.env.PORT_NR,
  user: proces.env.USER,
  password: process.env.PASSWORD,
  database: process.env.DB
},

` env/production.js

`
connections : {
  mongoLive: {
    adapter: 'sails-mongo',
    url : process.env.CONNECTION_URL
  }
},
models: {
  connection: 'mongoLive'
},
`

development.js

`
connections : {
  mongoDev: {
    adapter: 'sails-mongo',
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 27017,
    database: 'threads_db'
  }
},

models: {
  connection: 'mongoDev'
}
`

Procfile

`
web: npm start
`

package.json

`
"scripts": {
  "debug": "node debug app.js",
  "start": "sails lift"
},
`

models.js has been set to

`
 connection: 'mongodb',
`

So, running this locally works fine with both a connection to a local mongo db and the remote mongolab db but deployment to Heroku fails. Sees to me that I'm missing something in the setup. Help with this appreciated.

Answer 1

I resolved this by using the master version of sails-mongo.

package.json

"sails": "git+https://github.com/balderdashy/sails.git"

Then once deployed to heroku restarted the dyno with

`heroku ps:scale web=1`