Rails won't load asset pipeline

Question

I ran rake assets:precompile by mistake on development, and Rails stopped loading the assets on development. I only get application.js and ap

Answer 1

tl;dr

1. $ rake assets:clean
2. restart rails server $ rails server -e development
3. clear browser cache, or do a ctrl+shift+r on the app page

Now everything should be as it was before you ran rake assets:precompile

-- end tl;dr --

If the above doesn't work, then a detailed list of steps:

1. Do $ rake assets:clean or $ rm -rf public/assets to remove the generated assets.
2. In application.rb, ensure:
   • config.assets.enabled = true (to enable rails' asset pipleline)
3. In development.rb, ensure:
   • config.assets.compress = false (so as to not gzip the assets)
   • config.assets.debug = true (so as to not merge all css and js files into application.[cs|js])
   • config.assets.compile = true (or not set - to enable runtime compilation of assets)
   • config.serve_static_assets = false (or not set)
4. Finally, restart your rails server $ rails server -e development

This should fix it.