Question

I’m creating a new rails 3.2 project and everything is loading fine except the last modifications I made on css files.

If I do app/assets/stylesheets/application.css change anything on this file, I can’t see the changes on the browser until I run the following command at console:

bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=development

my config/environment/development.rb file.

Sample::Application.configure do
  # Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb

  # In the development environment your application's code is reloaded on
  # every request. This slows down response time but is perfect for development
  # since you don't have to restart the web server when you make code changes.
  config.cache_classes = false

  # Log error messages when you accidentally call methods on nil.
  config.whiny_nils = true

  # Show full error reports and disable caching
  config.consider_all_requests_local       = true
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = false

  # Don't care if the mailer can't send
  config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false

  # Print deprecation notices to the Rails logger
  config.active_support.deprecation = :log

  # Only use best-standards-support built into browsers
  config.action_dispatch.best_standards_support = :builtin

  # Raise exception on mass assignment protection for Active Record models
  config.active_record.mass_assignment_sanitizer = :strict

  # Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
  # with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
  config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5

  # Do not compress assets
  config.assets.compress = false

  # Expands the lines which load the assets
  config.assets.debug = true
end

Any help?

Answer 1

The problem was that I’d compiled the assets, so the rails was serving the already compiled version of these files.

In this case, all you have to do is, just delete the already generated files, like application.css and application.css.gz and you well get it working again.

Hope it helps someone.