According to Heroku documentation:
Heroku now caches 50mb worth of tmp/cache/assets which is a cache directory for the asset pipeline to store inte
Hopefully this helps. To get changes to Heroku in development I run rake assets:clean and then rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production --trace before committing and pushing to Heroku
rake assets:clean
rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production --trace