How to precompile assets with Chef?

Question

OpsWorks isn\'t precompiling assets on deploy. I found this recipe in this thread but I think it\'s not complete though, or missing something because I get an error about

Answer 1

In AWS Opsworks I use the following recipe:

execute 'rake assets:precompile' do
  cwd "#{node[:deploy_to]}/current"
  user 'root'
  command 'bundle exec rake assets:precompile'
  environment 'RAILS_ENV' => node[:environment_variables][:RAILS_ENV]
end

I run this command as root because the instance needs the right permission to write to the release path. Running the command as the deploy user renders a permission denied error.