rake assets:precompile attempting to connect to database

Question

I\'m attempting to debug why my application is attempting to connect to my database when I run rake assets:precompile --trace.

I\'m probably missing so

Answer 1

Check your configuration files (in all environments). If for example

rake assets:precompile

works in development, but you are having issues in production

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

then you most likely have a reference to active record in your /config/environments/production.rb

config.active_record.dump_schema_after_migration = false

In order to avoid that altogether if you are planning on not taking advantage of active record or employing a NoSQL such as mongo, you may wish to initialize your new app as follows:

rails new myApp --skip-active-record

which is equivalent to -O (capital O) as far as I am concerned.