burned up the SQL DB and replaced with PG in dev since Heroku was having issues with calling records from the PG DB.  Tried heroku db:push but failed miserably.  Removed all refereces to sqlLite, rebuilt the DB -- Note this was a BAD way to do things and only worked because I didn't care about the existing DB -- and switched from THIN back to WebRick as Heroku didn't like Thin.