A little memo to configuration for local testing play2 application develop for Heroku with a PostgreSQL database.

As the documentation on heroku site didn’t work, here is the DATABASE_URL value I use on my env.

export DATABASE_URL=jdbc:postgresql://localhost/$(whoami)

And to manually start a local PostgreSQL database (if not automatically started)

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start