application.css not being served as an asset

Question

EDIT 4, 5 and 6

8 hours in, any more ideas are welcome :) Maybe this bug is already known and solved, but I get the behaviour I described in edit 2&

Answer 1

To keep things simple I like to use the .css.scss exstension and use:

li {
    background-image: image-url("logo_80px_80px.png");
}

Full reference can be found on Rails Guides under Section 2.2.2.

Answer 2

I had the exact same issue, and solved it by changing this option to true (it is at false by default) in my production.rb file.

  # Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
  config.serve_static_assets = true

From what I understand, setting this option to false makes sense if you are running under Apache or nginx, which was not my case.

Answer 3

I had this issue the other day and solved it by editing the production.rb file

config.assets.compress = true
config.assets.compile = true
config.assets.digest = true
config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false

Are the asset settings I ended up with. I precompile my assets, while deploying with capistrano.

Before I edited the asset settings, I had exactly the same issue. The .css was being requested and was compiled into my public/assets folder but the server couldnt find the files.