Rails Fails To Generate Correct Link Path In Production Mode

Question

The app whose in production mode is failed to generate correct links. For instance, the code below

  <%= stylesheet_link_tag    'application', media: 'all', 'data-turbolinks-track' => true %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-track' => true %>

is generating the code below:

  <link rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/stylesheets/application.css" data-turbolinks-track="true" />
  <script src="/javascripts/application.js" data-turbolinks-track="true"></script>

I precompiled javascript and stylesheet. Their correct path is respectively /public/assets/application-0d1386df5e82480bb54a6cd082e626ed2d46d364e867ca7d9ce009d3af8c1718.js and /public/assets/application-5d8165dcf2b8902df77aed37c7ab6fee8c7d62844cb48ece6360d1fa4f079804.css.

Also, I did change config.assets.compile = true in /config/environments/production.rb. But nothing is changed.

Answer 1

If you want to run production mode in your local environment you should tell rails to serve assets itself by changing following

config.serve_static_files = true

In production environment itself you have to configure it using nginx - http://vladigleba.com/blog/2014/03/27/deploying-rails-apps-part-4-configuring-nginx/

and make sure you have reverse your earlier change before pushing it to production.

config.serve_static_files = false