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Upgrading old ruby 2.0.0 app to 2.2.4 for heroku deployment
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- Peter Peerdeman
- @peterpeerdeman
So heroku urged me to update my old ruby project Wisdoms.nl from version 2.0.0 to 2.2.4. Should be as easy as updating the Gemfile with the new version of ruby:
ruby "2.2.4"
... but unfortunately it wasn't. I kept getting errors about json 1.8.0 not being able to install, and that I had to get gem install json -v '1.8.0' running before I could finish the bundle update that would properly update the Gemfile.lock file.
After searching online for a while I found a number of suggestions about upgrading the version of json to 1.8.1. While that didn't work, upgrading the version to 1.8.3 did the trick and allowed me to run a bundle update command without failures. I had added the json 1.8.3 gem line to my Gemfile to make it work:
ruby "2.2.4"
gem 'json', '1.8.3'