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Deployment needs a persistent database #158

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Added instructions for PostgreSQL database creation
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additional change in the deploy chapter
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rearanging a sentence a bit, hope it's clearer now
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Expand Up @@ -139,6 +139,12 @@ It's as simple as running this command, replacing `djangogirlsblog` with your ow

$ heroku create djangogirlsblog

Because our application needs a database, let's create a free [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org) instance on Heroku. It's as simple as running this command:

$ heroku addons:add heroku -postgresql --app djangogirlsblog

> In addition to creating a database for us, Heroku will also provide our application information on how to connect to the database. This information will be read and used by `dj_database_url.config()` in our `mysite/settings.py file`.
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Isn't this wrong? Heroku won't create a db for us, as you stated below.

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running this command will create it on Heroku... might have stated that differently, I agree
changed, thanks 😉


One more thing: let's install [heroku-push plugin](https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-push) by running this command:

$ heroku plugins:install https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-push
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$ heroku open --app djangogirlsblog

One final step; Heroku created a new database for us but we also need to sync it:
One final step; we created a new database on Heroku, but we also need to sync it:

$ heroku run python manage.py migrate --app djangogirlsblog

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