Rails App Not Serving Assets in Production Environment

Question

My app works fine when run in development environment. In production (rails server -e production), the browser can\'t access the css and js files and on the con

Answer 1

This sounds like to the problem I was having.

I found a blog that suggests this is a bug in the Rails 4.0.0 asset pipeline, and is inexplicably mitigated by setting...

config.assets.compile = true

... in config/environments/production.rb

Aside from somehow kicking the asset pipeline in to actually working, that setting will turn on live-compilation of assets. That is normally a bad thing for performance in production, but if you still manually precompile assets when you deploy, with

rake assets:precompile

... the live-compilation should never happen (because the necessary assets have already been precompiled).

I hope this helps :)