We are deploying a rails app to Heroku. The app should be making a youtube api call, using the Trollop Gem as a command line parser. We keep getting this error back. 2014-07-30T23:17:57.526014+00:00 app[web.1]: Error: unknown argument '-p'. 2014-07-30T23:17:57.526020+00:00 app[web.1]: Try --help for help. 2014-07-30T23:17:57.526541+00:00 app[web.1]: Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 7466ms This is what our Trollop code looks like. def self.youtube_search(query) p ENV["YOUTUBE_DEVELOPER_KEY"] p query p "point of no return" p "*"*25 youtube_service_api_name = "youtube" youtube_api_version = "v3" # opts = HTTParty.get("https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=russia") opts = Trollop::options do opt :q, 'Search term', :source => String, :default => query opt :maxResults, 'Max results', :source => :int, :default => 25 end What's much stranger is that it was working an hour ago and now it's not. Does anyone have any ideas? This doesn't seem to be documented anywhere.