Thanks Jordon, that's giving me a few things to go on. (Off to investigate...)
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 4:15:18 PM UTC+1, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Phillip <phi...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I am trying to deploy my first rails app in a production environment, > but > > cannot get the assets to load. The site is hosted on Webfaction, they > advise > > to create a "static app" to serve the assets which I have done. But I > don't > > understand how my rails app then knows about the static app. > > I don't even want to know what they are talking about or implying > because it sounds wrong. By default in production on a Rails 4 > application it prefers you to pass asset serving up higher in the > chain because it will be much quicker for nginx/apache to serve the > app than it will be for Rails to serve it especially considering you > have to proxy to rails who then has to send it back and then it gets > served. > > This means that when you build a new app you need to make sure you > have a proper root set (or a sub-domain) that can lead to the public > folder and each time you deploy you need to do `rake > assets:precompile` to get your assets to work. If you do not wish > this to be the case then set your production.rb to serve static assets > and go on about your way as you will not need to have nginx/apache > care about it. > > At that point your Rails application will know the asset path and you > will have access to public/assets/$(name)-$(hash).$(ext). > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/f4e7f260-ec2c-4932-93f7-9ee8d4f5eed0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
