Rails won't serve static files in production

Question

I recently updated my app from 2.3.8 to 3.0.rc, but after a while in development environment I tried the production environment. But now it won't serve static files.

I use standard development and production environment settings, and have no unique gems for either environments. Everything works like a charm in development, but it won't serve static files in production.

Using ruby-1.8.7-p299 and every gem is up to date. Using WEBrick on my server, running rails s -e production -p 3001

Anyone with some solutions or tips to this ?

Wesley

Answer 1

After some extra digging I found a setting in the production.rb file, config.serve_static_assets which was set to false, and since I'm not running apache or nginx the static files where not served. blush

Wesley

Nice. Hopefully you've just saved many persons from such future blushes :). – Grimaldi

Answer 2

For rails 5 you should set environment variable RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES

Pericranium

This came in handy when debugging a webpacker problem: RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES=1 bin/rails s – Phineas