What is the best practice for dealing with migrates?

Yii 2.0 Installation and Setup
1

I understand why you can’t run composer “require-dev”, but to run migrate on the server I would need these resources in the environment.
How can I proceed?
In this case my idea would be to temporarily raise require-dev as require and after work update “yii2-gii” to dev again.

Run tests in heroku:

heroku run "php yii migrate/up"

Error detected
class yii\gii\module does not exist

2

You don’t need gii to run migration. Most probably your configuration includes gii module while it should be switched off for the environment you are running it.

3

I liked the solution Yii2-heroku, but this solution only works in yii2 advance.

I’m creating a similar resource to run migration using remote base.
Example:

php yii heroku/migrate