Drift (an excellent migration library written in Clojure) usually operates via a leiningen plugin:

lein migrate

I was using drift to migrate database tables between versions for a toy blog I was working on, targeting Heroku for deployment.

Leiningen plugins are gathered in the dev-dependencies. Heroku (properly, I think) doesn't gather these when preparing your app, so you don't have access to any plugins, including drift.

To work around that, I added some code to call the drift code directly to dbmigrate.clj:

(ns smallblog.migrate
  (:use [smallblog.config])
  (:require [drift.execute]))

(defn -main
    ([]
     (drift.execute/run []))
    ([version]
     (drift.execute/run ["-version" version])))

You'll need to add drift to your dependencies in project.clj. This can be in addition to drift in dev-depdencies, if you'd like to use the plugin locally and the new migrate target on Heroku. A new run target in my project.clj for convenience:

:run-aliases {:migrate smallblog.migrate}

Now, I can either call:

> heroku run lein run :migrate

Or, for a specific version:

> heroku run lein run :migrate 12

Locally, those targets will continue to work, as will the default drift commands:

lein migrate