Rails Assets Not Compiled in Production - ruby-on-rails

Here's the error:
Processing by LandingPageController#index as HTML
Rendered landing_page/index.html.erb within layouts/application (2.1ms)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 49ms
ActionView::Template::Error (landing_page.css isn't precompiled):
12: <![endif]-->
13:
14: <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media => "all" %>
15: <%= stylesheet_link_tag params[:controller] %>
16:
17: </head>
18: <body>
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:15:in `_app_views_layouts_application_html_erb__3002306950342527375_29178380'
I can see that it's looking for the landing_page.css file because of line 15. What I don't understand is what is what is the best way to have this asset precompiled for production. I have tried modifying /config/application.rb:
config.assets.precompile += ['landing_page.css']
This doesn't seem right to me. I'd have to do this for every single stylesheet which would be annoying.
I added code to the application.css manifest:
*= require landing_page
This doesn't seem to work. I get the first error when I do this and don't modify the application config file.
I'm stumped as to how you can include the line
<%= stylesheet_link_tag params[:controller] %>
in your layout and have your assets precompiled for production when you run
bundle exec rake assets:precompile
I feel like I'm missing some simple trick that automatically adds the auto-generated stylesheets and javascript files to the list of files to be precompiled when you run the rake task.

Adding require landing_page to application.css does not cause landing_page to be precompiled. It means that when application.css is precompiled, the contents of landing_page.css will be included in the output.
If you are going to load them individually, ie
    <%= stylesheet_link_tag params[:controller] %>
Then you will need to add them all to the list of things to precompile. You can use wildcards  in that list, so if these controller specific stylesheets were all in stylesheets/controllers then you could do
    config.assets.precompile += ["controllers/*.css"]
Typically though people tend not to do this. While for ease of development things are often split up on a per controller basis, all of these are then required from application.css. Application.css is then the only stylesheet you call stylesheet_link_tag on

in your /config/environments/production.rb add this:
config.assets.precompile += %w( landing_page.css)

This was news to me so I'll share: In Rails 4, only application.js|css manifest files files are auto-compiled by Rails. If you're using something like
javascript_include_tag controller_name
# ex javascript_include_tag 'guitars'
you apparently need to add your custom manifests ('guitars') to config.assets.precompile as mentioned above. I {believe} this is a change from Rails 3.2.

Related

Rails not serving static files

I'm running the latest version of Thin, Rails, and Ruby. The relevant parts of my build script are:
export RAILS_ENV=production
export RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES=true
# generate static assets
RAILS_ENV=production rake assets:precompile
# restart server
rails server thin -d
And in my production.rb I have
config.serve_static_files = ENV['RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES'].present?
And I include these files in my view using
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'application', media: 'all' %>
<%= javascript_include_tag 'application' %>
This successfully compiles my assets and moves them to the /public/assets folder. However, none of these assets are actually served when loading the page. The generated HTML is
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/stylesheets/application.css" />
<script src="/javascripts/application.js"></script>
These don't have the digests included in the filename, so I believe they're incorrect. Attempting to manually load the filenames both with and without their digest included all fail with a 404 as well. What am I doing wrong?
put the js files under app/assets/javascript.
put the css files under app/assets/stylesheets.
All your js and css files are loaded in the header of application.html.erb, which loads the application.css and application.js. This is what these two lines of code does.
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'application', media: 'all' %>
<%= javascript_include_tag 'application' %>
These two files, there is a line require_tree . which loads all the files in the corresponding directory:
app/assets/javascript
app/assets/stylesheets
I usually use public folder only for external libraries when I am not using a CDN. And you will need to explicitly include them in the application.js and application.css file.

application.css.scss file not precompiled

I have seen lots of posts regarding precompiled assets in rails, but I don't think I see one that is related to my specific problem.
My application is complaining that aplication.css.scss is not precompiled.
From what I understand, any *.scss file should be compiled in my rails application when i run:
rake assets:precompile
I even confirmed in my public/assets folder that I can see the compiled application.css file.
However, when I try to visit the first page of my application I get the following error:
Compiled application.css (1002ms) (pid 20298)
Started GET "/" for 10.20.1.162 at 2013-01-21 12:21:38 -0500
Processing by MyController#new as HTML
Rendered business_searches/partials/_form.html.erb (16.6ms)
Rendered business_searches/new.html.erb within layouts/application (45.6ms)
Rendered commons/_documenthead.html.erb (34.0ms)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 139ms
ActionView::Template::Error (application.css.scss isn't precompiled):
4: <meta charset="utf-8" />
5: <title>My Company Name | <%= #page_title || 'My Company Tagline' %></title>
6:
7: <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application.css.scss", :media => "all" %>
8: <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
9:
10:
app/views/commons/_documenthead.html.erb:7:in `_app_views_commons__documenthead_html_erb___1078677729313377561_30352020'
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:1:in `_app_views_layouts_application_html_erb___646383708034639720_28260100'
I was able to fix the problem by setting the following variable in my config/environments/production.rb file:
config.assets.compile = true
But according to this post, that is not recommended.
I would advice you to keep your manifest file application.css just for managing css assets , and not to prefix it with .scss . The correct syntax for application.html.erb file is :
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media => "all" %>
If you've placed some styles in your 'application.css, just create a newcss.scssfile in yourapp/assets/stylesheets` and place them there .
It's because your scss file is having a compile time error. I am quite sure that if you replace it's contents with known valid ones, it will get compiled.
You may comment it and check if it compiles.
Always use 'application.CSS' as base CSS.
Others should be separate.

rails 3.2.1 stylesheet not loading?

I am reading the "agile web development with rails" book and ran into a problem at the end of chapter 6. Basically, what I have done so far is defined a sass stylesheet (products.css.scss) and linked it to my application in layouts/application.html.erb:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Depot</title>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media => "all" %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
<%= csrf_meta_tags %>
</head>
<body class='<%= controller.controller_name %>'>
<%= yield %>
</body>
</html>
but it doesn't load when i run the server and visit the page!
any idea why?
This solved my problem:
bundle exec rake assets:precompile
i just spent an hour figuring out the answer, since been having the exact same issue myself. go to your application.css.sass and make sure it has
/* ...
*= require_self
*= require_tree .
*/
in it. this auto loads all the other .css.sass in apps/assets/stylesheets, then precompiles them into public/assets/stylesheets to be 1 statis css file, and that is being served to your browser.
Have you include that products.css.scss in the application.css manifest file that you are referencing in the layout?
With the asset pipeline enabled, you must include the manifest in the layout and reference all the stylesheets from the manifest.
Hope it helps.
Running the assets precompile command will compile as the user above mentioned... however, that might not be what you want to do unless you want to have to run that everytime you make a change and then add all of this to your SCM repo and then possibly have issues in production.
The real solution to this exact example is that the doesn't have the "products" class in it, so the products.css.scss isn't picked up. See this post which helped me understand this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10080134
place the depot.css from /public/stylesheets/ to app/assets/stylesheets/
according to the documentation (http://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/AssetTagHelper/StylesheetTagHelpers/stylesheet_link_tag) you can set the tag to include all stylesheets in the stylesheets directory with stylesheet_link_tag :all There are also options for caching, recursion, and concatenation.
If you don't want to include everything but just the application.css and your controller's css you could do this:
= stylesheet_link_tag 'application', params[:controller].classify.downcase.pluralize

Two different layouts with one stylesheet for each

I have two different layouts and two different stylesheets (one for each) used by one controller/action.
How can I prevent the following error?
line #5 raised: app/assets/stylesheets/application.css has already been required
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
2: <html>
3: <head>
4: <title>Blog</title>
5: <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %>
6: <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
7: <%= csrf_meta_tags %>
8: </head>
The same error occurs when the other layout is loaded, but "application" is then "another_stylesheet_file_in_the_same_folder".
What I don't understand is why the application.css file was able to be loaded while the second layout has another <%= stylesheet_link_tag "another_css_file" %> line in there instead.
Could the reason be the asset pipeline which is loading both of these stylesheets?
Or is it just an inheritance issue?
posts_controller.rb
class PostsController < ApplicationController
layout :choose_layout
def choose_layout
current_uri = request.env['PATH_INFO']
if current_uri.include?('diashow')
#diashow = true
return 'diashow'
else
#diashow = false
return 'application'
end
end
...
Is the application layout already loaded before this code has been executed?
Is there a way to solve this by using the before_filter?
Or is it just stupid what I try to do? :)
EDIT:
Rails console:
Rendered posts/index.html.erb within layouts/application (10.4ms)
Compiled application.css (2ms) (pid 23453)
Compiled diashow.css (1ms) (pid 23453)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 348ms
Why is it loading both of these files? It should only load one of them.
Both these files probably include this command:
= require_tree .
This would make them recursively include each other.
These directives are "commented out" to maintain syntax correctness of js/css files. Asset Pipeline will nevertheless parse these comments and execute directives.

blueprint/screen.css isn't precompiled

I've been following along Michael Hartl's excellent RoR Tutorial, but I'm using RoR 3.1. I am a newbie to RoR 3.1 and need help related to assets pipeline. Here is my problem:
Before continuing to section 5.3, I thought I'd like to push to Heroku and see how things develop. To my surprise "GET /" results in error 500. Everything went OK in my local-development-environment. I then tried running my local sample_app under production-environment (rails s -e production). Same result, error 500:
Sprockets::Helpers::RailsHelper::AssetPaths::AssetNotPrecompiledError in Pages#home
Showing /Users/john/Projects/sample_app/app/views/layouts/_stylesheets.html.erb where line #4 raised:
blueprint/screen.css isn't precompiled
Supporting info:
I put blueprint CSS directory under vendor/assets/stylesheets.
I followed Michael's section 13.1.4 advice and have the following as my app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title><%= title %></title>
<%= render 'layouts/stylesheets' %>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
<%= csrf_meta_tags %>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<%= render 'layouts/header' %>
<section class="round">
<%= yield %>
</section>
<%= render 'layouts/footer' %>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Content of app/views/layouts/_stylesheets.html.erb:
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'blueprint/screen', :media => 'screen' %>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'blueprint/print', :media => 'print' %>
<!--[if lt IE 8]><%= stylesheet_link_tag 'blueprint/ie' %><![endif]-->
I have run bundle exec rake assets:precompile.
Content of public/assets/manifest.yml:
---
logo.png: logo-8e0a5ad292fbb13a2b07e68fa3995406.png
rails.png: rails-bd9ad5a560b5a3a7be0808c5cd76a798.png
blueprint/plugins/buttons/icons/cross.png: blueprint/plugins/buttons/icons/cross-2ebcd25368006d1b7b0c5b7d6b523ab3.png
blueprint/plugins/buttons/icons/key.png: blueprint/plugins/buttons/icons/key-55237526967cbcab3e8cfb12f0029d88.png
blueprint/plugins/buttons/icons/tick.png: blueprint/plugins/buttons/icons/tick-3f5fc1f52b505b93f88263e0432d25ce.png
blueprint/plugins/buttons/readme.txt: blueprint/plugins/buttons/readme-3ff7f5dbb0288d71f70682fdbe9d86ec.txt
blueprint/plugins/fancy-type/readme.txt: blueprint/plugins/fancy-type/readme-e7ed185d1a9f23256d418ab929b464d9.txt
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/doc.png: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/doc-b071fd74b88ff38cda8360a53f493013.png
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/email.png: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/email-28104e72b3418737d4b9b329c12ec358.png
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/external.png: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/external-ee6d976ddb80125fafe1a33c6f8aed10.png
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/feed.png: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/feed-59bc8604661681639d25cb7015a32c38.png
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/im.png: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/im-afeeb6e0b652c1edb1441bf0fb428596.png
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/lock.png: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/lock-d73c4b3b57ce72cb6dbd8b265507ff75.png
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/pdf.png: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/pdf-c4c543e5103a8516839a7846b91e1ac4.png
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/visited.png: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/visited-fb2370448bc4ea5d079e963a8c0d900b.png
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/xls.png: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/icons/xls-5399729cd31dffc492a04b3805cd0be1.png
blueprint/plugins/link-icons/readme.txt: blueprint/plugins/link-icons/readme-42c02030199cd36a671d4b623cb4dc36.txt
blueprint/plugins/rtl/readme.txt: blueprint/plugins/rtl/readme-8d11bf76e19fb3fc7dbc6c2ddb54b92d.txt
blueprint/src/grid.png: blueprint/src/grid-973add038ed86febca85f03e8b35b94a.png
jquery-ui.min.js: jquery-ui-7e33882a28fc84ad0e0e47e46cbf901c.min.js
jquery.min.js: jquery-8a50feed8d29566738ad005e19fe1c2d.min.js
application.js: application-a552e1db33b8be6a42eedf1261916f3c.js
application.css: application-214e0c0742f20b334e8a7776e0a4c71d.css
I don't see blueprint/screen.css in manifest.yml.
What am I missing?
From http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html#precompiling-assets
If you have other manifests or individual stylesheets and JavaScript files to include, you can add them to the precompile array
This means that in your config/environments/production.rb, you set
config.assets.precompile += %w( blueprint/screen.css blueprint/print.css )
or a catchall:
config.assets.precompile += %w( *.css *.js )
I added a reference to the blueprint stylesheets in my application.css file. This way, I do not have to change the layout to modify the stylesheets, I simply need to modify the application.css file, run rake assets:precompile, and restart the webserver (if webrick or similar).
My application.css currently looks like this:
/*
* This is a manifest file that'll automatically include all the stylesheets available in this directory
* and any sub-directories. You're free to add application-wide styles to this file and they'll appear at
* the top of the compiled file, but it's generally better to create a new file per style scope.
*= require_self
*= require_tree ./blueprint
*= require_tree .
*/
You may want to precompile your assets on production as described above.
And if you use capistrano you may do it after code update:
require 'bundler/capistrano'
after 'deploy:update_code' do
run "cd #{release_path}; RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} bundle exec rake assets:precompile"
end
From my own experience with this problem, where I was also going through the excellent RoR tutorial by Michael Hartl, there was one step that I think might be left out at this point...
bundle exec rake assets:precompile
git add public/assets
git commit -m "vendor compiled assets"
git push heroku
I found this here.

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