Disabling asset fingerprinting with asset_path for a single asset

Question

I want to use the normal asset name, e.g. app.js when calling the asset_path helper in my views. In production, it uses the cache-busting name, e.g.

Answer 1

By default assets.digest is enable in production environment and is recommended for several reasons. However, if you really want to disable it write this in your production.rb

config.assets.digest = false  

For more info refer http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html

Answer 2

Figured it out, pretty simple actually. Just have to add digest: false to asset_path like so:

asset_path('app.js', digest: false)