diff --git a/variants/frontend-react/template.rb b/variants/frontend-react/template.rb
index 0d84509b..a88eff65 100644
--- a/variants/frontend-react/template.rb
+++ b/variants/frontend-react/template.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 TERMINAL.puts_header "Adding react-rails to Gemfile"
 
 gem "react-rails"
+gem "connection_pool", "~> 2.0"
 run "bundle install"
 
 run "rails generate react:install"