rails 3.1 deployment on heroku .css isn't precompiled error

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I got this error because I had a public.css and public.js file that was not compiled with the rest of the .css and .js files. The solution was to

Answer 1

Actually, you need to run precompilation for your production environment:

• Run RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile on local
• Commit and deploy to Heroku

More broadly, the Heroku docs describe three options for asset compilation for Rails 3.1+ on Cedar:

1. Compile locally (covered in this answer)
2. Compile during slug compilation
3. Compile during runtime