Rails 4 - ActiveAdmin - Redactor - Heroku -- has no method 'redactor' console error

Question

I've been trying to tackle this all morning. Locally, this setup works just fine. I am not using the redactor-rails gem because this is a rails 4 app and it doesn't support it. I have moved the redactor.css and redactor.js calls from the active_admin initializer file to be required in my actice_admin.js.coffee and active_admin.css files because on Heroku, it could not find the path. Now, when firing up the page that should be displaying redactor, I get has no method 'redactor' in the console.

I'm at a loss. I've read up on precompiling assets and the how the pipeline works, but it doesn't seem like I'm doing anything out of the ordinary here.

So how can I deploy to Heroku without this error?

Answer 1

Ok, so I seemed to have disregarded an important task. After thinking about precompilation a bit more I remembered I had been told to run

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

before. After running that again, it precompiled the active_admin.css and active_admin.js.coffee files which had the new require's in it. Viola!

Hope this helps someone else in the future.