Ruby on Rails Rake assets:precompile error - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm new in Rails development and this is my first deployment to Heroku.
When I execute my application (after the deployment) there is an error:
2011-09-18T21:05:54+00:00 app[web.1]: Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 10ms
2011-09-18T21:05:54+00:00 app[web.1]:
2011-09-18T21:05:54+00:00 app[web.1]: ActionView::Template::Error (application.css isn't precompiled):
I googled this and found that I have to precompile my assets, but when trying to do this I found an other error:
$ bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production
rake aborted!
No such process - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pg-0.11.0/lib/pg_ext.so
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
I haven't found any solution for this issue. Is there anyone who faced this an know how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

I ran into this issue as well and I resolved it by doing the following:
Open up config/environments/production.rb and make sure the following option is set to true:
# Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
config.assets.compile = true
Then run:
rake assets:precompile --trace RAILS_ENV=production
Hope this helps!
~Kevin

Answer 2

I got the problem too. But you can
rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production
in local, and push to heroku with public/assets. It's resolved.

Answer 3

I would recommend to use the new Cedar stack. It precompiles assets for you on deploy and overall plays nicer with Rails 3.1, although you will need to configure your app a little bit to work: add some gems to your Gemfile and create a Procfile. But it is still an easier way to go.

Answer 4

Oh, this is an easy one. Your PG gem is breaking your rake task. You can either go the long route to try to fix it, or you can try commenting it out from your gemfile in order to run the precompile.

Answer 5

Yes like Simpleton posted above the PG gem is causing the problem. Imo a better solution would be to move the PG gem inside production in your gemfile and run;
bundle install --without production
Then you should be able to run the rake task without problems

Answer 6

I had the same error message. My issue was an incorrectly specified font url.
The bulk of this answer shows how I figured it out.
Although I didn't get the path of the asset it was failing on when running
RAILS_ENV=production SECRET_KEY_BASE=xxx rake assets:precompile --trace
Instead I had this stack trace:
** Invoke assets:precompile (first_time)
** Invoke assets:environment (first_time)
** Execute assets:environment
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute assets:precompile
rake aborted!
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
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/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/sass-3.4.22/lib/sass/tree/visitors/perform.rb:8:in `visit'
/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/sass-3.4.22/lib/sass/tree/root_node.rb:36:in `css_tree'
/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/sass-3.4.22/lib/sass/tree/root_node.rb:20:in `render'
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/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/sprockets-3.7.0/lib/sprockets/base.rb:73:in `find_all_linked_assets'
/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/sprockets-3.7.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:142:in `block in find'
/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/sprockets-3.7.0/lib/sprockets/legacy.rb:114:in `block (2 levels) in logical_paths'
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/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/sprockets-rails-3.1.1/lib/sprockets/rails/task.rb:67:in `block (2 levels) in define'
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/Users/smithd98/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/monitor.rb:214:in `mon_synchronize'
/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/rake-11.2.2/lib/rake/task.rb:180:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
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/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/rake-11.2.2/lib/rake/application.rb:108:in `block in top_level'
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/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/rake-11.2.2/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
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/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval'
/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<main>'
I modified the gem to spit out the filename
subl /Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/sprockets-3.7.0/lib/sprockets/sass_processor.rb:124:in
like this
def asset_path(path, options = {})
path = path.value
puts path
puts '123'
path, _, query, fragment = URI.split(path)[5..8]
puts '126'
path = sprockets_context.asset_path(path, options)
puts '128'
query = "?#{query}" if query
puts '130'
fragment = "##{fragment}" if fragment
puts '132'
Autoload::Sass::Script::String.new("#{path}#{query}#{fragment}", :string)
end
Then when I ran
RAILS_ENV=production SECRET_KEY_BASE=xxx rake assets:precompile --trace
I got
** Invoke assets:precompile (first_time)
** Invoke assets:environment (first_time)
** Execute assets:environment
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute assets:precompile
fonts/OpenSans-Light.ttf
123
126
rake aborted!
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
/Users/smithd98/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/sprockets-3.7.0/lib/sprockets/sass_processor.rb:283:in `sprockets_context'
...the rest of the stack trace is the same...
Then I found out the issue was a font had been specified like this:
.btn-rect {
font-family: 'OpenSans-Light';
src:font-url('fonts/OpenSans-Light.ttf') format('truetype');
}
and should have been like this:
.btn-rect {
font-family: 'OpenSans-Light';
}

Answer 7

Instead of config.assets.compile = true use config.serve_static_assets = true
The first option is incorrect, because it tells your server to go back to serving the app/assets folder.