How to disable the asset pipeline?

Rails
1

Hi,

I’m trying to use Rails for the first time and since 3.1 is already in
RC stage I thought I’d use it. The problem is I don’t want any of the
asset pipeline functionality. I decided to use RequireJS in my project
and I simply don’t need asset pipeline or Sprockets. I tried
commenting out config.assets.enabled = true in application.rb or
setting it to false.

I also put

require “action_controller/railtie”
require “action_mailer/railtie”
require “active_resource/railtie”
require “rails/test_unit/railtie”

instead of require ‘rails/all’

No matter what I do, when I run rails server I get the “Could not find
a JavaScript runtime” error. Is it impossible to disable the asset
pipeline or is JavaScript runtime needed for something else?

Regards,
Juliusz Gonera

2

In your application.rb file change config.assets.enabled to false.

Dieter L.
http://ubiety.ca

3

I’ll just quote myself:

“I tried commenting out config.assets.enabled = true in application.rb
or
setting it to false.”

4

Should have paid more attention sorry. Do you have the execjs gem
installed?

Dieter L.
http://ubiety.ca

5

coffee-script requires execjs to compile the javascript files. Even
with the asset pipeline disabled and coffee-script is required in your
gemfile it will require execjs along with it.

Dieter L.
http://ubiety.ca

6

At the moment no. I recreated the gemset and commented out those lines
in my Gemfile before running bundle install:

#gem ‘coffee-script’
#gem ‘uglifier’
#gem ‘jquery-rails’

Seems it doesn’t require a JavaScript runtime anymore.

It seems weird to me though that with config.assets.enabled = false
something still tried to use a JS engine.

7

Thanks, this clears it up.