Disabling asset bundling in production, Rails 3.1?

Question

I have an existing Rails application I am upgrading to Rails 3.1 from Rails 3.0. All is going well in development, but when moving to production my stylesheets are breaking, apparently due to asset compilation.

I would like to disable asset compilation in production until I can get the stylesheet conflicts worked out, but the config switches I throw at it dont seem to be working.

production.rb

# Don't fallback to assets pipeline
config.assets.compile = false

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

# Generate digests for assets URLs
config.assets.digest = false

After restarting Passenger application.css is the only stylesheet being served, contains inline content. In the development environment I have:

development.rb

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

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

...which leads to several stylesheets being loaded, not just application.css, and working styles in the application.

application.rb

=stylesheet_link_tag 'application'
=javascript_include_tag 'application'

application.css

*= require flutie
*= require_self
*= require jquery-ui-1.8.14.custom.css
*= require demo_table

All assets are setup in app/assets

Nick Nick · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-16T22:53:21

In your application.rb you need to disable it. If you want it to be like this in production only leave it as true in your application.rb and just put the config.assets.enabled = false in your production.rb

# Enable the asset pipeline
config.assets.enabled = false

Disabling asset bundling in production, Rails 3.1?

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