Rails 500 Error: application.css isn't precompiled
apache, passenger, precompiled, ruby-on-rails
Solution
After setting
config.assets.compile = true
you should also run:
rake assets:precompile --trace RAILS_ENV=production
See: rails 3.1.0 ActionView::Template::Error (application.css isn't precompiled)
Problem
I've got Rails running on Passenger with Apache on an Ubuntu linux box (ve) Server from Mediatemple. My app is giving me a 500 error (a Rails error, not an Apache error) when I try to load any page: http://www.mvngmtns.com I saw an article about changing this line in config/environments/production.rb: ``` config.assets.compile = true ``` But this didn't solve my problem. Can anyone help? My development.log: ``` Started GET "/" for 72.225.170.239 at 2012-06-29 15:28:43 -0700 Processing by HomeController#index as HTML Rendered application/_logo.html.erb (0.6ms) Rendered application/_navbar.html.erb (1.4ms) Rendered home/index.html.erb within layouts/application (2.6ms) Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 6ms ActionView::Template::Error (application.css isn't precompiled): 2: <html> 3: <head> 4: <title>Moving Mountains<%= get_title %></title> 5: <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media => "all" %> 6: <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %> 7: <%= csrf_meta_tags %> 8: app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:5:in `_app_views_layouts_application_html_erb___2841110860658336572_129641540' app/controllers/home_controller.rb:6:in `index' ``` As requested, ran ``` rake assets:precompile --trace RAILS_ENV=production touch /tmp/restart.txt ``` but still the same error. Here's what the trace said: ``` newguy@mvngmtns:/var/www/movingmountains$ rake assets:precompile --trace RAILS_ENV=production ** Invoke assets:precompile (first_time) ** Execute assets:precompile /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/bin/ruby /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-head@global/bin/rake assets:precompile:all RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_GROUPS=assets --trace ** Invoke assets:precompile:all (first_time) ** Execute assets:precompile:all ** Invoke assets:precompile:primary (first_time) ** Invoke assets:environment (first_time) ** Execute assets:environment ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Invoke tmp:cache:clear (first_time) ** Execute tmp:cache:clear ** Execute assets:precompile:primary ** Invoke assets:precompile:nondigest (first_time) ** Invoke assets:environment (first_time) ** Execute assets:environment ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Invoke tmp:cache:clear (first_time) ** Execute tmp:cache:clear ** Execute assets:precompile:non digest ``` I still have the same "500 - We're sorry, but something went wrong" in the browser, and cache: [GET /] miss in the apache log file.