Assets don't seem to be compiling

Question

I keep getting the error saying that the application.css isn't compiled.

I tried:

rake assets:precompile

And it didn't work, I even tried to run it with RAILS_ENV=production and still it didnt' work.

When I change my production.rb and set the config.assets.compile = true then it worked.

WHy isn't the manual compiling working?

Answer 1

This is a great RailsGuide on the Asset Pipeline:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html

you need to set RAILS_ENV before running "precompile", e.g.:

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

See also:

rake assets:precompile doesn't work (rails 3.1.1)

Rails 3.1 asset precompilation - include all javascript files