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Asked: 2026-06-08T09:36:41+00:00

In my application.js I have this: //= require jquery_ujs //= require jquery.validate.min //= require

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In my application.js I have this:

//= require jquery_ujs
//= require jquery.validate.min
//= require jquery.tokeninput
//= require script

in my gemfile, I read somewhere that I should put this if I want to ‘live compile’ the assets each time i deploy.

gem 'therubyracer', :require => 'v8'

When i put this, i can run cap deploy and cap deploy:assets:precompile successfully.

I also read from here that this is an extremely bad idea. So now im confused whether Im supposed to do this or not… When i dont put therubyracer in my gemfile i get an error when i deploy (below), even if i run assets:prcompile first before I deploy… but its my understanding if i DO use that this is a huge amount of overhead…?

could not find a JavaScript runtime. See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs for a list of available runtimes.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Apparently they’re not the same thing, and I need to simply add the assets to environments/production.rb where its commented

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