Why won't Heroku accept my Gemfile.lock in Windows?

Question

I have a rails application that I deploy on Heroku. I\'m using several different machines, and I noticed that when I add new dependencies (so that Gemfile.lock

Answer 1

Like matt commented above:

The problem is that Bundler creates different Gemfile.locks for Windows. The only solution is to create and commit the lock file on a *NIX system.

I would suggest to create a virtual machine running e.g. Ubuntu – maybe using Virtual Box. You can even get ready-to-use virtual machines – for example here.