[freshfruit]

If you are not updating gems, does it hurt to continue deploying with a custom buildpack? Heroku shouldn't repull gems if the gemspec hasn't been altered. Is that logic correct?

Does anybody have another suggestion for safely working around this issue? I don't have a clear sense for how long this will take to resolve and don't wish to slow down our release pace too much.

[kawsper]

If you trust your buildpack (and its contents), and it contains all the gems necessary, you are safe to deploy.