I hope this is useful for others, I have made 2 changes 1) gemfile: Unknown ruby interpreter version (do not know how to handle): >=2.2,<3.0. changed this: ruby '>= 2.2', '< 3.0' with this: ruby '2.5.1' 2) config/application.rb: rake fails #Bundler.require(*Rails.groups) fails Bundler.require #add this otherwise rake fails require 'rack/cors' Thanks again for a great app!