"bash: play: command not found" when trying heroku for the first time

Question

I'm trying out Play! with heroku and was going through the guide in the heroku site (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/play). After deploying my sample app, I noticed the dyno crashed. I checked the heroku logs and found out that heroku couldn't find the play command.

Anyone know how to install the Play! framework on heroku? I searched the dev center but couldn't find any info.

Answer 1

I had the same issue and the fix was changing the Procfile to use the command target/start instead of play and then pushing it to Heroku. Refer to the diff below.