rails 4 enabled rails to serve static assets: is it correct? (on heroku)

Question

Environment: heroku

Rails: 4

Ruby: 2

We deployed an app to heroku, and it seemed as though anything in the public folder was not accessible (didn't see the static file so the router kicked in and then complains about no route matching).

To get around this, we set

# Rails 4 only flag config.serve_static_assets = true 

in our production.rb file. Is this really the best way to handle this? Or did we fail to configure the app some how to be hosted on heroku properly?

Answer 1

This is deprecated in Rails 4.2, and it is now an alias slated to be removed in Rails 5.0

config.serve_static_assets = true 

It should be changed to:

config.serve_static_files = true