Rails app not loading assets on elastic beanstalk aws - ruby-on-rails

For context, I essentially followed this guide to get my rails app set up: https://medium.com/#jatescher/how-to-set-up-a-rails-4-2-app-on-aws-with-elastic-beanstalk-and-postgresql-3f9f29c046e2
My app is now running on AWS:
http://ems-heroes-dev.elasticbeanstalk.com/
64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v2.0.1 running Ruby 2.2 (Puma)
However, I can't get any of my assets to load.
Here is my config/environments/production.rb:
EmsHeroes::Application.configure do
config.cache_classes = true
config.eager_load = true
config.consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
config.serve_static_assets = true
# Compress JavaScripts and CSS.
config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier
config.assets.compress = true
config.assets.compile = true
# Bower asset paths
root.join('vendor', 'assets', 'components').to_s.tap do |bower_path|
config.sass.load_paths << bower_path
config.assets.paths << bower_path
end
# Precompile Bootstrap fonts
config.assets.precompile << %r(bootstrap-sass/assets/fonts/bootstrap/[\w-]+\.(?:eot|svg|ttf|woff2?)$)
# Minimum Sass number precision required by bootstrap-sass
::Sass::Script::Value::Number.precision = [8, ::Sass::Script::Value::Number.precision].max
config.less.paths << "#{Rails.root}/lib/less/protractor/stylesheets"
config.less.compress = true
# Generate digests for assets URLs.
config.assets.digest = true
config.assets.enabled = true
# Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets.
config.assets.version = '1.0'
# Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files.
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx
# Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
config.force_ssl = false
config.log_level = :info
config.i18n.fallbacks = true
config.active_support.deprecation = :notify
config.log_formatter = ::Logger::Formatter.new
end
My assets are loading fine via heroku though. (However, I dont plan on using heroku any more)
EDIT
It looks like its an issue with rake assets:precompile providing the wrong file names. Ex: My compiled css file is: "public/assets/application-79dc234c01a4f604b52fc53ff49ac89d.css" but Im getting a 404 looking for "application.css". Renaming the file to "public/assets/application.css" will load it properly.
Any idea why this would be the case and how I can get it to precompile properly?

This string after file name is called "digest", it's used to notify browser when file content changes. You need to use view helpers (asset_path, etc) to get name with digest, or you can turn off this feature with config.assets.digest = false

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Ruby on rails strange behavior

I'm new to ruby. Using RVM + Ubuntu + NGinX as server.
Edited 1 erb file which is located in app/views and 1 css file which is located in assets/stylesheets folder. But when I open the page none of changes happens to result.
I tried followings:
Rebooted server
service nginx restart
rails_env=production rake assets:precompile
rake assets:clean
rake assets:clobber
rake tmp:cache:clear
No success! Neither html nor css results doesn't change.
Any suggestions?
Here is /config/environments/production.rb file
Mine::Application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb.
# Code is not reloaded between requests.
config.cache_classes = true
# Eager load code on boot. This eager loads most of Rails and
# your application in memory, allowing both thread web servers
# and those relying on copy on write to perform better.
# Rake tasks automatically ignore this option for performance.
config.eager_load = true
# Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on.
config.consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
# Enable Rack::Cache to put a simple HTTP cache in front of your application
# Add `rack-cache` to your Gemfile before enabling this.
# For large-scale production use, consider using a caching reverse proxy like nginx, varnish or squid.
# config.action_dispatch.rack_cache = true
# Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this).
config.serve_static_assets = true
# Compress JavaScripts and CSS.
config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier
# config.assets.css_compressor = :sass
# Do not fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed.
config.assets.compile = true
# Generate digests for assets URLs.
config.assets.digest = true
# Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets.
config.assets.version = '1.2'
# Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files.
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx
# Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
# config.force_ssl = true
# Set to :debug to see everything in the log.
config.log_level = :debug
# Prepend all log lines with the following tags.
# config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid ]
# Use a different logger for distributed setups.
# config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(SyslogLogger.new)
# Use a different cache store in production.
# config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
# Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts from an asset server.
# config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"
# Precompile additional assets.
# application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS in app/assets folder are already added.
# config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )
# Ignore bad email addresses and do not raise email delivery errors.
# Set this to true and configure the email server for immediate delivery to raise delivery errors.
# config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
# the I18n.default_locale when a translation can not be found).
config.i18n.fallbacks = true
# Send deprecation notices to registered listeners.
config.active_support.deprecation = :notify
# Disable automatic flushing of the log to improve performance.
# config.autoflush_log = false
# Use default logging formatter so that PID and timestamp are not suppressed.
config.log_formatter = ::Logger::Formatter.new
end
Couple of things,
I would prefix ALL of your commands with bundle exec IE RACK_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile.
In your production.rb
config.serve_static_assets = false
make sure it is set to false as opposed to true as it is in or current production.rb
Let me know if that helps

Digest not generated after compiling assets

After executing rake assets:precompile in production environment it show a message saying
Generated non-digest assets in 485ms
I also tried rake assets:precompile:all, rake assets:precompile:primary but still it isn't generating digest for assets. Here's my production.rb file.
Gullak2::Application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb
# Code is not reloaded between requests
config.cache_classes = true
# Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on
config.consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
# Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
config.serve_static_assets = false
# Compress JavaScripts and CSS
config.assets.compress = true
# Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
config.assets.compile = true
# Generate digests for assets URLs
config.assets.digest = true
config.assets.logger = Logger.new($stdout)
# Defaults to nil and saved in location specified by config.assets.prefix
# config.assets.manifest = YOUR_PATH
# Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files
config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx
# Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
# config.force_ssl = true
# See everything in the log (default is :info)
# config.log_level = :debug
# Prepend all log lines with the following tags
# config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid ]
# Use a different logger for distributed setups
# config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(SyslogLogger.new)
# Use a different cache store in production
# config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
# Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts from an asset server
# config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"
# Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS are already added)
config.assets.precompile += %w( merchant.css merchant.js)
config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false
# Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
# config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Enable threaded mode
# config.threadsafe!
# Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
# the I18n.default_locale when a translation can not be found)
config.i18n.fallbacks = true
# Send deprecation notices to registered listeners
config.active_support.deprecation = :notify
end
Try the following code out :-
task non_digested: :environment do
assets = Dir.glob(File.join(Rails.root, 'public/assets/**/*'))
regex = /(-{1}[a-z0-9]{32}*\.{1}){1}/
assets.each do |file|
next if File.directory?(file) || file !~ regex
source = file.split('/')
source.push(source.pop.gsub(regex, '.'))
non_digested = File.join(source)
FileUtils.cp(file, non_digested)
end
end
It was my fault. I didn't look through the log generated by rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production command. It generates assets twice. First it generates assets with digest and after that it generates the non-digested assets.
I was reading only the last message which said Generated non-digest assets

Precompiling my assets is loading all my assets twice in production mode

my team and i have been trying to figure this one out for weeks to no avail. Every time we precompile our assets on our production server, our application will begin to load all of our assets twice (once as a precompiled script, and then again as each asset individually). This problem usually occurs between 2-5 days after the precompile (in other words, it works for a few days before breaking). I'm really not certain why this is happening.
I have seen a lot of other people with the same issue, but their issues are always pertaining to the development environment. However, our application's environment is in production.
here is our method for precompiling:
rake assets:clean
rake assets:precompile
here is my /config/environment.rb:
# Load the rails application
require File.expand_path('../application', __FILE__)
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'
# Initialize the rails application
Myapp::Application.initialize!
here is my /config/environments/production.rb:
Myapp::Application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb
# Code is not reloaded between requests
config.cache_classes = false
# Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on
config.consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
# Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
config.serve_static_assets = false
# Compress JavaScripts and CSS
config.assets.compress = true
# Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
config.assets.compile = true
# Generate digests for assets URLs
config.assets.digest = true
# BEGIN ICONIC PRECOMPILE ISSUE FIX
# add iconic path to precompile
config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join('app', 'assets', 'fonts')
# Precompile additional assets
config.assets.precompile += %w( .svg .eot .woff .ttf )
# END ICONIC PRECOMPILE ISSUE FIX
# Defaults to nil and saved in location specified by config.assets.prefix
# config.assets.manifest = YOUR_PATH
# Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx
# Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
# config.force_ssl = true
# See everything in the log (default is :info)
config.log_level = :debug
# Prepend all log lines with the following tags
# config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid ]
# Use a different logger for distributed setups
# config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(SyslogLogger.new)
# Use a different cache store in production
# config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
# Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts from an asset server
# config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"
# Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS are already added)
# config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )
# Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
# config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Enable threaded mode
# config.threadsafe!
# Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
# the I18n.default_locale when a translation can not be found)
config.i18n.fallbacks = true
# Send deprecation notices to registered listeners
config.active_support.deprecation = :notify
# Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
# with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
# config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5
end
and, although i don't see why you would need it, here is my /config/environments/development.rb:
Myapp::Application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb
# In the development environment your application's code is reloaded on
# every request. This slows down response time but is perfect for development
# since you don't have to restart the web server when you make code changes.
config.cache_classes = false
# Log error messages when you accidentally call methods on nil.
config.whiny_nils = true
# Show full error reports and disable caching
config.consider_all_requests_local = true
config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
# Don't care if the mailer can't send
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Print deprecation notices to the Rails logger
config.active_support.deprecation = :log
# Only use best-standards-support built into browsers
config.action_dispatch.best_standards_support = :builtin
# Raise exception on mass assignment protection for Active Record models
config.active_record.mass_assignment_sanitizer = :strict
# Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
# with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5
# Do not compress assets
config.assets.compress = false
# Expands the lines which load the assets
config.assets.debug = true
end
***UPDATE*
as per the suggested answer, I have modified my environments/production.rb. it now looks like this:
Myapp::Application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb
# Code is not reloaded between requests
config.cache_classes = false
# Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on
config.consider_all_requests_local = true
config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
# Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
config.serve_static_assets = true
# config.assets.debug = false
# Compress JavaScripts and CSS
config.assets.compress = true
# Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
config.assets.compile = true
# Generate digests for assets URLs
config.assets.digest = true
# BEGIN ICONIC PRECOMPILE ISSUE FIX
# add iconic path to precompile
# config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join('app', 'assets', 'fonts')
# Precompile additional assets
# config.assets.precompile += %w( .svg .eot .woff .ttf )
# END ICONIC PRECOMPILE ISSUE FIX
# Defaults to nil and saved in location specified by config.assets.prefix
# config.assets.manifest = YOUR_PATH
# Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx
# Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
# config.force_ssl = true
# See everything in the log (default is :info)
config.log_level = :debug
# Prepend all log lines with the following tags
# config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid ]
# Use a different logger for distributed setups
# config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(SyslogLogger.new)
# Use a different cache store in production
# config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
# Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts from an asset server
# config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"
# Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS are already added)
# config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )
# Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
# config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Enable threaded mode
# config.threadsafe!
# Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
# the I18n.default_locale when a translation can not be found)
config.i18n.fallbacks = true
# Send deprecation notices to registered listeners
config.active_support.deprecation = :notify
# Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
# with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
# config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5
end
instead of fixing my problem, all of my assets are now loading twice immediately after precompiling. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
here are the commands i'm running:
rm -rf public/assets
rake assets:clean
rake assets:precompile
any insight would be greatly appreciated. thanks!
Maybe disabling the live compilation of assets on production could fix your issue.
In your config/environments/production.rb set:
config.assets.compile = false
Take a quick look at this question. It may clarify the "after a few days" part of the issue.
GL & HF
You say that all of your assets are being loaded once from application.css / application.js and then again from their individual files. From what you said, it sounds like you have a bunch of <script> and <style> tags in your <head> element - is that true? That should only happen when you have config.assets.debug = true. In production, the individual files should not appear there at all. You should only have application.css and application.js.
This makes me think that something about your production configuration is wrong or that the wrong environment configuration is being used on your server.
(It could also happen if you added links to the individual files in your layout. Are you doing that?)
It would be easier to debug if you provided the <head> element of your document + the head section of your application layout (or whatever layout you're using).
A few thoughts:
Is your server setting RAILS_ENV=production?
When you compile your assets on your production machine, are you setting RAILS_ENV=production for the rake task?
Is your clock correct on your production machine?
Are your assets really being loaded twice, or are you just seeing JS callbacks fire multiple times? If you're using Turbolinks, any JS in the body of your document that attaches on-document-ready callbacks will begin firing multiple times once you have clicked on any turbolinks-enabled link (but not after a fresh load).
You still have "config.assets.compile = true" in your updated config. You shouldn't need that if you're precompiling assets, and it can cover up problems, so I would suggest changing it back to false.
Here is the assets config I'm using for production apps:
# Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
config.serve_static_assets = false
# Compress JavaScripts and CSS
config.assets.compress = true
# Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
config.assets.compile = false
# Generate digests for assets URLs
config.assets.digest = true
Please try with that config and keep us updated.

Javascript fails to load in production

My app works dandy in development but yesterday I tried to move it to my production server and after some work with permissions and paths I though I got it to work.
But it seems like I'm unable to load the JS assets while images and css works fine.
At first I thought it was the bootstrap js file that made my life misserable but removing it just gives me an error at the next JS asset.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32242733/jsfail.png
Production.rb
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb
# Code is not reloaded between requests
config.cache_classes = true
# Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on
config.consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
# Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
config.serve_static_assets = false
# Compress JavaScripts and CSS
config.assets.compress = true
# Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
config.assets.compile = true
# Generate digests for assets URLs
config.assets.digest = true
# Defaults to nil and saved in location specified by config.assets.prefix
# config.assets.manifest = YOUR_PATH
# Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx
# Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
# config.force_ssl = true
# See everything in the log (default is :info)
# config.log_level = :debug
# Prepend all log lines with the following tags
# config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid ]
# Use a different logger for distributed setups
# config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(SyslogLogger.new)
# Use a different cache store in production
# config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
# Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts from an asset server
# config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"
# Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS are already added)
# config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )
# Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
# config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Enable threaded mode
# config.threadsafe!
# Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
# the I18n.default_locale when a translation can not be found)
config.i18n.fallbacks = true
# Send deprecation notices to registered listeners
config.active_support.deprecation = :notify
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'example.com' }
# ActionMailer Config
# Setup for production - deliveries, no errors raised
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
config.action_mailer.default :charset => "utf-8"
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
address: "smtp.gmail.com",
port: 587,
domain: "example.com",
authentication: "plain",
enable_starttls_auto: true,
user_name: ENV["GMAIL_USERNAME"],
password: ENV["GMAIL_PASSWORD"]
}
# Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
# with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
# config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5
Assets
root#flypatterns:/var/www/flypatterns/current# ls public/assets/
application-35684ef44e5902293fd317c512600f66.css glyphicons-halflings.png
application-35684ef44e5902293fd317c512600f66.css.gz glyphicons-halflings-white-6cccd17a7aed91dbc0157d343c68c0d9.png
application-66ba1e6c258ba515e18111b4b93c8c57.js glyphicons-halflings-white.png
application-66ba1e6c258ba515e18111b4b93c8c57.js.gz images
application.css jquery.min-6c267bfd2b3f36e6edccb2e584934c1c.map
application.css.gz jquery.min.map
application.js manifest.yml
application.js.gz patterns
gallery_images users
glyphicons-halflings-2851b489e8c39f8fad44fc10efb99c3e.png
i follow this step for Heroku
hello do follwing changes before deploy following file
------enviorment.rb-----
::ActiveSupport::Deprecation.silenced = true
------Production.rb-------
config.assets.compile = ['*.js', '*.css']
config.active_support.deprecation = :silence
-------application.rb-------
config.assets.enabled = true
config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false
try changing
config.serve_static_assets = false
to
config.serve_static_assets = true
I encountered a problem with my app while pushing it to heroku. I had used twitter-bootstrap, there was some errors while precompiling assets. So i switched to manual compiling rather than automatic precompiling. For that i did the following:
I had set initialize_on_precompile to false in config/application.rb as follows:
config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false
and then i did manually by running:
bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production
Finally it worked...
This maynot be the solution you looking for unless you use any predefined front-end frameworks.
check your application.js file i had added some code to do a java script code that added to some funk weird file. the problem was i was missing an "/" for some code that must have been commented out :-( stupid me it took forever
bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production
showed me what file and line to look at and i opened that file in sublime. I hope this helps took me5 days to find this damn error smh

Rails loads css files from public/assets instead of app/assets in development mode

I'm running in development mode. I'm editing .css files but not seeing changes. If I go to public/assets/ and rename application.css, I see changes (it can't find any styles). Why would it be using that file? Isn't that for production mode? I don't want to pre-compile all the time in dev mode. thanks. Environment files added below.
development.rb :
Tcms::Application.configure do
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb
# In the development environment your application's code is reloaded on
# every request. This slows down response time but is perfect for development
# since you don't have to restart the web server when you make code changes.
config.cache_classes = false
# Log error messages when you accidentally call methods on nil.
config.whiny_nils = true
# Show full error reports and disable caching
config.consider_all_requests_local = true
config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
# Don't care if the mailer can't send
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Print deprecation notices to the Rails logger
config.active_support.deprecation = :log
# Only use best-standards-support built into browsers
config.action_dispatch.best_standards_support = :builtin
# Raise exception on mass assignment protection for Active Record models
config.active_record.mass_assignment_sanitizer = :strict
# Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
# with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5
# Do not compress assets
config.assets.compress = false
# Expands the lines which load the assets
config.assets.debug = true
end
production.rb :
Tcms::Application.configure do
# Uncomment and set this to match your production URL. Used for emailing links to the CMS. (default: localhost:3000)
# config.cms.site_domain = "www.example.com"
# Configure your mail server's address below
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {:address => 'mail.yourmailserver.com', :domain => config.cms.site_domain}
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb
# Code is not reloaded between requests
config.cache_classes = true
# Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on
config.consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
# Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
config.serve_static_assets = true
# Compress JavaScripts and CSS
config.assets.compress = true
# Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
config.assets.compile = true
# Generate digests for assets URLs
config.assets.digest = true
# Defaults to nil and saved in location specified by config.assets.prefix
# config.assets.manifest = YOUR_PATH
# Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx
# Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
# config.force_ssl = true
# See everything in the log (default is :info)
config.log_level = :info
# Prepend all log lines with the following tags
# config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid ]
# Use a different logger for distributed setups
# config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(SyslogLogger.new)
# Use a different cache store in production
# config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store
# Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts from an asset server
# config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"
# Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS are already added)
# config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )
# Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
# config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
# Enable threaded mode
# config.threadsafe!
# Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
# the I18n.default_locale when a translation can not be found)
config.i18n.fallbacks = true
# Send deprecation notices to registered listeners
config.active_support.deprecation = :notify
# Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
# with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
# config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5
end
As default, Rails will serve assets within /public and not compiling live, if these assets exists.
To get rid of it, either delete the assets within the public dir,
or add the following line into you config/environments/development.rb
config.serve_static_assets = false
config.serve_static_assets configures Rails itself to serve static
assets. Defaults to true
More to read: here
What version of rails are you running? Is this an app that upgraded from 2.x or 3.0.x to 3.1 or 3.2? This almost sounds like this app was pre-asset pipline. Here is a good tutorial on upgrading from pre-asset pipline to asset-pipline...
http://railscasts.com/episodes/282-upgrading-to-rails-3-1
...also here is a good basic tutorial for asset pipeline...
http://railscasts.com/episodes/279-understanding-the-asset-pipeline

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