How to ignore public/assets with Pow

Question

I'm testing something out with my development environment where I'm precomiling assets locally then rsyncing it to the production server.

However, when I'm use Pow it serves the /public/assets/ folder which includes the minified css and js files.

I wanted to know how to tackle this problem.

How do you ignore the public/assets with the Pow configuration?

Many thanks

Answer 1

This sort of process (precompiling locally and pushing assets to the server independent of the code coming from your VCS) is common. I use a custom implementation of this strategy as part of my deploys through Capistrano.

There is a separate rake task to run after the assets have been synced.

rake assets:clean

This will flush the assets from public/assets locally, allowing you to continue development with assets being pulled from app/assets/, lib/assets/, vendor/assets/, etc...

I'm pretty certain what you're asking for can't be doen with Pow itself. There is an interesting Rails Issue about this, specifically, this comment

config/environments/development.rb

config.serve_static_assets = false

config/routes.rb (at the very end)

if Rails.env.development?
  app = ActionDispatch::Static.new(
    lambda{ |env| [404, { 'X-Cascade' => 'pass'}, []] },
    Rails.application.config.paths['public'].first,
    Rails.application.config.static_cache_control
  )

  mount app, :at => '/', :as => :public
end

I've not tested this myself.