Question

I have a rails application and try to deploy it to my local apache server now right.

I tried to precompile the css,javascript file though the command rake assets:precompile and no errors came out.

However, I cannot not access the website though localhost properly and I checked the log file of production.

Error :

ActionView::Template::Error (scaffolds.css isn’t precompiled):
3:
4: Pragprog Books Online Store
5:
6: <%= stylesheet_link_tag “scaffolds” %>
7: <%= stylesheet_link_tag “depot”, :media => “all” %> –>
8: <%= stylesheet_link_tag “pagination” %>
9: app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:6:in
`_app_views_layouts_application_html_erb__1763484413904368549_70243433398420′

It seems that the scaffolds.css cannot be precompiled with the command.

I have changed the config to config.assets.compile = true and my website works. 🙂
But I want to know why the command cannot precompile that css.

Answer 1

Check out these lines in your production.rb (or whatever environment you are using), which are probably still commented out:

# Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS are already added)
# config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )

Simply use this option to specify additional assets to precompile, for example:

config.assets.precompile += %w( *.js *.scss *.coffee *.css )