Question
Additional buildpacks
- Posted on January 28, 2025
- DigitalOcean App PlatformApp Platform
Asked by wwahammy
I currently have a Rails application on the App platform. It uses the Ruby buildpack. I’d like to add additional buildpacks before it, in particular, the jemalloc buildpack(https://github.com/gaffneyc/heroku-buildpack-jemalloc) for reducing memory usage. This is straightforward to add on Heroku but I can’t find a way to do this on the DO App Platform. Is there a way to do so, if so, how do I go about doing it?
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Hey @wwahammy,
Besides the ones that are already available here you can’t currently add custom buildpacks:
But this is a great idea, sounds like it’d be super useful!
The best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to the DigitalOcean Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented.
Hope that helps!
- Bobby.