When changing to a production deployment with a single rails instance,
NOT proxied, errors showed up on the console, and of course .js and .css
files were not served as a result:
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches
“/javascripts/application.js”):
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches “/favicon.ico”):
Solution:
in config/environments/production.rb:
Disable Rails’s static asset server
In production, Apache or nginx will already do this
config.serve_static_assets = false
The key is to comment the third line.
I know: using Mongrel for production isn’t recommended, to say the
least. I’m just posting the info so if you try it, you’ll know why it’s
behaving differently.