diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index c4772f0..79d4669 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ gem 'activerecord-postgresql-adapter'
 gem 'pg'
 gem 'delayed_job_active_record'
 gem 'daemons'
-gem 'heroku_delayed_job_autoscale'
 
 group :production do
 	gem 'unicorn'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index a1bd38b..50eb733 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ GEM
     activesupport (3.2.12)
       i18n (~> 0.6)
       multi_json (~> 1.0)
-    addressable (2.3.3)
     arel (3.0.2)
     bcrypt-ruby (3.0.1)
     better_errors (0.6.0)
@@ -56,12 +55,10 @@ GEM
       activerecord (>= 2.1.0, < 4)
       delayed_job (~> 3.0)
     erubis (2.7.0)
-    excon (0.16.10)
     execjs (1.4.0)
       multi_json (~> 1.0)
     faraday (0.8.5)
       multipart-post (~> 1.1)
-    fattr (2.2.1)
     feedzirra (0.0.31)
       activesupport (>= 3.0.8)
       builder (~> 3.0.0)
@@ -79,18 +76,6 @@ GEM
       activesupport (>= 3.1, < 4.1)
       haml (>= 3.1, < 4.1)
       railties (>= 3.1, < 4.1)
-    heroku (2.35.0)
-      heroku-api (~> 0.3.7)
-      launchy (>= 0.3.2)
-      netrc (~> 0.7.7)
-      rest-client (~> 1.6.1)
-      rubyzip
-    heroku-api (0.3.8)
-      excon (~> 0.16.10)
-    heroku_delayed_job_autoscale (0.0.7)
-      delayed_job (>= 2.1)
-      heroku (>= 1)
-      rush (>= 0.6)
     hike (1.2.1)
     htmlentities (4.3.1)
     httpauth (0.2.0)
@@ -103,8 +88,6 @@ GEM
     jwt (0.1.5)
       multi_json (>= 1.0)
     kgio (2.8.0)
-    launchy (2.2.0)
-      addressable (~> 2.3)
     loofah (1.0.0)
       nokogiri (>= 1.3.3)
     mail (2.4.4)
@@ -117,7 +100,6 @@ GEM
     mime-types (1.21)
     multi_json (1.6.1)
     multipart-post (1.1.5)
-    netrc (0.7.7)
     nokogiri (1.4.7)
     oauth (0.4.7)
     oauth2 (0.8.1)
@@ -156,11 +138,6 @@ GEM
     rake (10.0.3)
     rdoc (3.12.1)
       json (~> 1.4)
-    rest-client (1.6.7)
-      mime-types (>= 1.16)
-    rubyzip (0.9.9)
-    rush (0.6.8)
-      session
     sass (3.2.5)
     sass-rails (3.2.6)
       railties (~> 3.2.0)
@@ -168,8 +145,6 @@ GEM
       tilt (~> 1.3)
     sax-machine (0.0.20)
       nokogiri (> 0.0.0)
-    session (3.1.0)
-      fattr
     sorcery (0.8.1)
       bcrypt-ruby (~> 3.0.0)
       oauth (~> 0.4.4)
@@ -206,7 +181,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   delayed_job_active_record
   feedzirra
   haml-rails
-  heroku_delayed_job_autoscale
   htmlentities
   jquery-rails
   meta_request
diff --git a/app/models/feed.rb b/app/models/feed.rb
index da24cb2..321c506 100644
--- a/app/models/feed.rb
+++ b/app/models/feed.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 class Feed < ActiveRecord::Base
-  include HerokuDelayedJobAutoscale::Autoscale
   has_many :posts, :dependent => :destroy
   has_and_belongs_to_many :layers
   attr_accessible :title, :url, :description, :generator, :last_fetched, :feed_url