Question

I’m pretty new to this whole deployment thing. I’ve deployed my app once before when I first created it, and everything seemed to work okay then. I’ve now made some changes to my app and I’d like to deploy them and make sure they work in a production environment. I added and committed the last of my changes and merged my changed into my master branch. Then I ran git push heroku master. I received the following error in the output:

Gemfile detected, running Bundler version 1.0.7
   Unresolved dependencies detected; Installing...
   Using --without development:test
   You have modified your Gemfile in development but did not check
   the resulting snapshot (Gemfile.lock) into version control

Okay, so I need to update my gemfile. First, I checked the contents of my .gitignore file, which are:

.bundle
db/*.sqlite3*
log/*.log
*.log
/tmp/
doc/
*.swp
*~
.project
.DS_Store
.psd

Gemfile.lock doesn’t seem to be in there, but I tried the following anyway:

git add .
git commit -m "updated Gemfile.lock"

I then pushed to Heroku again and got the same error. Next, I tried:

git add Gemfile Gemfile.lock
git commit -m "updated Gemfile.lock (again)"

After pushing, I got the same result. After searching around for a while, I found this post, which prompted me to try the following:

gem update bundler
bundle update
git add Gemfile Gemfile.lock
git commit -m "updated Gemfile.lock (again (again))"

Still no luck, and I’m pretty much out of ideas at this point. I’d appreciate any suggestions.

Answer 1

Well it turns out the answer was pretty simple. According to the Heroku Support Guy, you can’t use if statements in your Gemfile. The offending line from my Gemfile was:

gem 'rb-fsevent', :require => true if (RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/i)