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

As previously noted config.serve_static_assets is deprecated and replaced by config.serve_static_files. If one examines config/environments/production.rb for Rails-4.2 then one finds this:

  # Disable serving static files from the `/public` folder by default since
  # Apache or NGINX already handles this.
  config.serve_static_files = ENV['RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES'].present?

The implication being that setting and exporting (in BASH) the environment variable export RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES="to any value whatsoever" in a session prior to running rails s -e production will give the desired result when testing locally and also will avoid having to remember to recode production.rb before pushing to the production host.