Do I have to run rake assets:clean before rake assets:precompile?
asset-pipeline, ruby-on-rails-3
Solution
No you do not need to run rake assets:clean before, just running rake assets:precompile will recompile your assets. It will recreate your cache busting digest and manifest.yml (which contains key/value mappings that match each asset name to its MD5 cache-busted name)
and yes you can just run rm -r public/assets
Problem
I deploy code to my production server using git. This might include changes to JS and CSS files. Do I have to run `rake assets:clean` at all before I run `rake assets:precompile`? I'm worried that not cleaning the previous precompiled assets might have side effects. This is a little silly, but my google-fu didn't find any answers. My AWS instance runs `rake assets:clean` pretty slowly and I'm wondering if it's needed at all. Also, can I replace the clean command with a simple `rm -r public/assets`?