--skip-sprockets and --skip-javascript still generates app/assets/javascripts/application.js?

Question

I plan to use bowerjs to manage front-end dependencies and gulp.js to concatenate and minify and compile the front-end code. Consequently, I want to skip the Rails assets pipeline, including sprockets. I run the following command to skip the assets pipeline:

$ rails new myapp --skip-sprockets --skip-javascripts --database=postgresql -T

However, I notice the following:

 create  app/assets/config/manifest.js
 create  app/assets/javascripts/application.js
 create  app/assets/javascripts/cable.js
 create  app/assets/stylesheets/application.css

And when I look at the application.js file, I notice the following:

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require_tree .

It did comment our sprockets in config/application.rb:

# require "sprockets/railtie"

And the Gemfile does not contain

sass-rails
uglifier
coffee-rails
jquery-rails
turbolinks

But why did it generate files in app/assets?

My guess, Rails 5 comes with Actioncable and it relies on Javascript which in turn has to be generated to work. — Alexander Luna
I just tried this with -C flag to exclude Action Cable and it still generates the files listed — oneWorkingHeadphone

cnnr cnnr · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-08T12:01:37

5

votes

Check you syntax. Correct is a --skip-javascript

--skip-sprockets and --skip-javascript still generates app/assets/javascripts/application.js?

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