Heroku: ActionView::Template::Error (.css isn’t precompiled)
As I was deploying an application recently, I ran into this error:
ActionView::Template::Error (gmaps4rails.css isn't precompiled):
This, of course, is caused by the new asset pipeline and the Rails 3.1 defaults. If you have the same trouble, it’s a quick solution. Production needs to be told to compile assets. Open up config/environments/production.rb and change the following line from false to true:
# Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
config.assets.compile = true
And voila! Commit, push to Heroku, and you should be good to go!
Update:
This solution isn’t ideal. It will compile the assets each request which is very slow. The best solution is add config.assets.precompile = %w( *.js *.css ) to config/application.rb and then run the rake assets:precompile and commit the compiled assets to your repository before pushing to Heroku. You’ll also want to modify the config/development.rb to change serve public assets to false otherwise you will get duplicate assets in development. Please check out this article on Heroku for more information: