Trouble shoot Rails 3.2 assets pipeline

I’m trying to figure out why my asset pipeline isn’t working right.
I ran the following from the console:

y Rails.application.config.assets.precompile

and got:

  • !ruby/object:Proc {}

  • !ruby/regexp /(?:/|\|\A)application.(css|js)$/

  • .svg

  • .eot

  • .woff

  • .ttf

=> nil

This appeared normal. Then I ran:

y Rails.application.config.assets.paths
and got:

  • !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vRG9jdW1lbnRzL3dlYnNpdGVzL2hvc3Rpbmcv
    ZmxldGNoZXIvYXBwL2Fzc2V0cy9mb250
  • !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vRG9jdW1lbnRzL3dlYnNpdGVzL2hvc3Rpbmcv
    ZmxldGNoZXIvYXBwL2Fzc2V0cy9pY28=
  • !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vRG9jdW1lbnRzL3dlYnNpdGVzL2hvc3Rpbmcv
    ZmxldGNoZXIvYXBwL2Fzc2V0cy9pbWFnZXM=
  • !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vRG9jdW1lbnRzL3dlYnNpdGVzL2hvc3Rpbmcv
    ZmxldGNoZXIvYXBwL2Fzc2V0cy9qYXZhc2NyaXB0cw==
  • !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vRG9jdW1lbnRzL3dlYnNpdGVzL2hvc3Rpbmcv
    ZmxldGNoZXIvYXBwL2Fzc2V0cy9zdHlsZXNoZWV0cw==
  • !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vRG9jdW1lbnRzL3dlYnNpdGVzL2hvc3Rpbmcv
    ZmxldGNoZXIvdmVuZG9yL2Fzc2V0cy9qYXZhc2NyaXB0cw==
  • !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vRG9jdW1lbnRzL3dlYnNpdGVzL2hvc3Rpbmcv
    ZmxldGNoZXIvdmVuZG9yL2Fzc2V0cy9zdHlsZXNoZWV0cw==
  • !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vLnJ2bS9nZW1zL3J1YnktMS45LjMtcDEyNUBm
    bGV0Y2hlci9nZW1zL2pxdWVyeS1yYWlscy0yLjAuMi92ZW5kb3IvYXNzZXRz
    L2phdmFzY3JpcHRz
  • !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vLnJ2bS9nZW1zL3J1YnktMS45LjMtcDEyNUBm
    bGV0Y2hlci9nZW1zL2NvZmZlZS1yYWlscy0zLjIuMi9saWIvYXNzZXRzL2ph
    dmFzY3JpcHRz
  • !ruby/object:Pathname
    path: !binary |-
    L1VzZXJzL21hcmtydXNzb24vRG9jdW1lbnRzL3dlYnNpdGVzL2hvc3Rpbmcv
    ZmxldGNoZXIvYXBwL2Fzc2V0cy9mb250
    => nil

This does not look right at all. Can anyone tell me what’s going on
here?