Rails migration for GeoWorldMap db into postgresql db

geo_world_map_migration

class CreatePlaces < ActiveRecord::Migration
#  Rails migration for GeoWorldMap db into postgresql db
#(inspired by http://blog.inspired.no/populate-your-database-with-free-world-cities-countries-regions-in-2-minutes-using-a-rails-migration-273/ post)

#extract files from GeoWorldMap.zip archive from here
#  http://www.geobytes.com/GeoWorldMap.zip
#
#and place them into #{Rails.root}/db/migrate/
##the archive has 'cities.txt' file, rename it 'Cities.txt'
#mv cities.txt Cities.txt
  def up
    create_table :countries, :id => false do |t|
      t.primary_key :CountryId
      t.string :name, :limit => 50, :null => false
      t.string :fips104, :limit => 2, :null => false
      t.string :iso2, :limit => 2, :null => false
      t.string :iso3, :limit => 3, :null => false
      t.string :ison, :limit => 4, :null => false
      t.string :internet, :limit => 2, :null => false
      t.string :capital, :limit => 25
      t.string :map_reference, :limit => 50
      t.string :nationality_singular, :limit => 35
      t.string :nationality_plural, :limit => 35
      t.string :currency, :limit => 30
      t.string :currency_code, :limit => 3
      t.integer :population
      t.string :title, :limit => 50
      t.string :comment, :limit => 255
    end

    create_table :regions, :id => false do |t|
      t.primary_key :RegionId
      t.references :country, :null => false
      t.string :name, :limit => 45, :null => false
      t.string :code, :limit => 8, :null => false
      t.string :adm1code, :limit => 4, :null => false
    end

    create_table :cities, :id => false do |t|
      t.primary_key :CityId
      t.references :country, :null => false
      t.references :region, :null => false
      t.string :name, :limit => 45, :null => false
      t.float :latitude, :null => false
      t.float :longitude, :null => false
      t.string :timezone, :limit => 10, :null => false
      t.integer :dma_id
      t.string :code, :limit => 4
    end
    add_index :countries, :name
    add_index :regions, :name
    add_index :cities, :name

    #change encoding to the one used into files
    execute "set client_encoding to 'latin1'"
    execute "COPY countries FROM '#{Rails.root}/db/migrate/Countries.txt' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"
    execute "COPY regions FROM '#{Rails.root}/db/migrate/Regions.txt' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"
    execute "COPY cities FROM '#{Rails.root}/db/migrate/Cities.txt' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"
    #change encoding back to UTF8
    execute "set client_encoding to 'UTF8'"

    rename_column :countries, 'CountryId', :id
    rename_column :regions, 'RegionId', :id
    rename_column :cities, 'CityId', :id

    #to generate foreign keys add
    #gem 'foreigner' into Gemfile
    add_foreign_key(:cities, :countries, :dependent => :delete)
    add_foreign_key(:cities, :regions, :dependent => :delete)
    add_foreign_key(:regions, :countries, :dependent => :delete)
  end

  def down
    drop_table :cities
    drop_table :regions
    drop_table :countries
  end
end

Perhaps you can assist me--I am trying to deploy an app with this file on Heroku but am getting the following error when trying to migrate the database: "ERROR: must be superuser to COPY to or from a file”. The error comes in on this line: "execute "COPY countries FROM '#{Rails.root}/db/migrate/Countries.txt' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"
execute "COPY regions FROM '#{Rails.root}/db/migrate/Regions.txt' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"
execute "COPY cities FROM '#{Rails.root}/db/migrate/Cities.txt' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"

Any ideas?

I'm stuck here too lol

I've figured out a simple workaround:

1. Go to the migration file and comment out the execution lines, i.e.:
   execute "COPY countries FROM '#{Rails.root}/db/migrate/Countries.txt' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"
   execute "COPY regions FROM '#{Rails.root}/db/migrate/Regions.txt' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"
   execute "COPY cities FROM '#{Rails.root}/db/migrate/Cities.txt' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"
2. Migrate the database per usual on Heroku.
3. Export your local database and import into your Heroku app. See: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-import-export
4. Voila. All country/region/city data are there, together with all other data you've created locally.