files produced by asset:precompile don't match urls generated by stylesheet_link_tag (missing digest) in minimal rails 4 site

Question

I\'m using Ruby 2.0.0-p247 and Rails 4.0.0

If I make a minimal Rails 4 site like this:

rails new minimal
cd minimal
rails g         


        

Answer 1

While I was writing up this question I came across this blog post which suggests it is a bug.

http://railsblog.kieser.net/2013/08/rails4-phusion-passenger-asset-pipeline.html

Of the various suggestions, just setting the compilation fallback true...

config.assets.compile = true

seems to be sufficient to kick Rails in to generating appropriately digested URLs:

The other suggestion, explicitly setting RAILS_ENV and RAILS_GROUPS seemed to produce different digest strings on the precompiled files, but they always seem to match up with the generated HTML regardless.