Hello,
 
do you know this scenario:?
 
* you are writing a new appliation and you are utilizing a current Rails 4 
release
* when running in development mode everything is working fine
* and when you are ready with development and you just have to package and 
deploy the application a major problem arises: the asset management and how 
to provide static files completely changes just by modifying the definition 
in what stage you are.
 
At the moment the behaviour of Rails applications in production mode is 
somehow strange and a lot of extra steps are required to get the 
application configured correctly and to manually generate /copy files, that 
are part of the software package.
 
You may ask, why the curent behaviour of Rails apps should be changed! 
Everything is documented and Rails is running as it is. And that is 
wonderful. ;-)
 
In practice I do know a slightly different way to proceed. When 
your application is ready fo testing you are providing it to the test team 
within the testing stage. And when tests did succeed, the application is 
ready to be moved to the production stage. But compared to the development 
stage things work completely different in Rails applications and a bunch of 
other / additional gems are activated.
 
Mmh. I wonder, whether it would be possible to provide one of the following 
ways out of this behaviour:
 
* provide configurations that just work. When an adminstrator is providing 
additional performance enhancemants like serving static files via fast 
webservers or caching servers this will enhance the speed of applications. 
Or:
* wouldn't it be possible to provide a ready-configured initializer, that 
is initializing and generating all caches and cache contents that are 
required by the application?
 
 
What do you think? 
 
 
Best regards, Mario
 
 
PS: I guess, in the wild a number of Rails applications are running with 
configurations, that are tightly related to development configurations, 
because they just work and when going life with new releases nobody has the 
time to care about additional problems and a runtime behaviour that is 
completely new compared to the one in other stages. And when the 
application is running and it meets the requirements, why should a project 
team start the approach to start configuring an application in a new way 
that has not been tested? And who should pay for this...?

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