I made a basic rails app with a simple pages controller with an index function and when I load the page I get:
ActionView::Template::Error (application.css isn't precompiled):
2: <html>
3: <head>
4: <title>Demo</title>
5: <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %>
6: <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
7: <%= csrf_meta_tags %>
8: </head>
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:5:in `_app_views_layouts_application_html_erb__43625033_88530400'
Gemfile
source 'http://rubygems.org'
gem 'rails', '3.1.0'
# Bundle edge Rails instead:
# gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git'
gem 'sqlite3'
gem 'execjs'
gem 'therubyracer'
# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
gem 'sass-rails', " ~> 3.1.0"
gem 'coffee-rails', "~> 3.1.0"
gem 'uglifier'
end
gem 'jquery-rails'
# Use unicorn as the web server
# gem 'unicorn'
# Deploy with Capistrano
# gem 'capistrano'
# To use debugger
# gem 'ruby-debug19', :require => 'ruby-debug'
group :test do
# Pretty printed test output
gem 'turn', :require => false
end
ruby-on-rails asset-pipeline
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edited Dec 21 '11 at 4:41
richardsun
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asked Sep 1 '11 at 19:43
Chris Muench
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bundle exec rake assets:precompile seems to fix it, but why doesn't it just work? – Chris Muench Sep 1 '11 at 20:26
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I have the same problem in production, even after run bundle exec rake assets:precompile – Lucas Renan Sep 4 '11 at 22:03
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By default Rails assumes that you have your files precompiled in the production environment, if you want use live compiling (compile your assets during runtime) in production you must set the config.assets.compile to true.
# config/environments/production.rb
...
config.assets.compile = true
...
You can use this option to fallback to Sprockets when you are using precompiled assets but there are any missing precompiled files.
If config.assets.compile option is set to false and there are missing precompiled files you will get an "AssetNoPrecompiledError" indicating the name of the missing file.