App Platform - how to specify a certain stack for legacy version support?

Posted on February 15, 2022

I’m trying to get a legacy Ruby on Rails app running on the App Platform - it’s currently using ruby 2.3.1, which I realise is fairly old now - upgrading is on the cards, but ideally I’d like to get it running with this version first.

I deploy, and see this message:

The Ruby version you are trying to install does not exist on this stack.
You are trying to install ruby-2.3.1 on heroku-18.

Ruby ruby-2.3.1 is present on the following stacks:
 - cedar-14
 - heroku-16

Is it possible to specify the stack somehow? I can’t seem to find a configuration option for it.

Many thanks for any help!

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Bobby

February 15, 2022

Hi there,

I’ve just checked the official documentation and it looks like the Heroku-16 stack reached end-of-life on May 1st, 2021:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-16-stack

What I could suggest is either:

Try upgrading your Ruby version to a newer one so that it would be able to build on Heroku-18
Create a Dockerfile so that your App builds from the Dockerfile rather than the Heroku build-packs:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/languages-frameworks/docker/

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby