diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
index 624b38d50..c9ca958a9 100644
--- a/config/application.rb
+++ b/config/application.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 module MrtDashboard
   class Application < Rails::Application
     # Initialize configuration defaults for originally generated Rails version.
-    config.load_defaults 6.1
+    config.load_defaults 5.0
 
     # Configuration for the application, engines, and railties goes here.
     #
diff --git a/config/database.yml b/config/database.yml
index af76632f8..b16d88974 100644
--- a/config/database.yml
+++ b/config/database.yml
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ default: &default
   # Merritt UI encountered 500 errors when mysql connections were no longer active.
   # Jan 2024 - adding this setting to see if it prevents inactive connections.
   # See https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/ConnectionPool.html
+  #
   # Oct 2024 - reverting this setting now that retry logic clears connections
-  #idle_timeout: 0
+  # idle_timeout: 0
   port: 3306
   username: "{!SSM: inv/readwrite/db-user}"
   password: "{!SSM: inv/readwrite/db-password}"
@@ -39,4 +40,4 @@ docker: &docker
   username: user
   password: password
   encoding: utf8mb4   
-  #idle_timeout: 0
+  # idle_timeout: 0