Problem

You would like to upgrade to the latest version of Phoenix 0.4.0 from the previous version of 0.3.1. When you try to update the dependencies and try to start phoenix again (mix phoenix.start) you get the following error:

** (Mix) You're trying to run :your_app_name on Elixir v1.0.0-rc1 
but it has declared in its mix.exs file it supports 
only Elixir ~> 0.15.0

Solution

After upgrading your Elixir version to the latest (1.0.0-rc1), and updating the path to your elixir installation so that it uses the new one, clear the dependencies from your project:

mix deps.clear --all

Change the dependency in your mix.exs file to be as the following:

def project do
    [ app: :your_app_name,
      version: "0.0.1",
      elixir: "~> 1.0.0-rc1",
      elixirc_paths: ["lib", "web"],
      deps: deps ]
  end

and then get the dependencies again with:

mix deps.get

after that you should be able to start your phoenix project with tne new version.