running rails app on heroku, can't see static pages in /public folder

Question

I have a couple static pages which when running locally work as localhost:3000/foo.html, but this doesn't work once uploaded to heroku.

I tried adding the following to the routes.rb file:

match '/foo', :to => redirect('/public/foo.html')

but that doesn't seem to work, it redirects me to foobar.com/public/foo.html, but still finds nothing there.

Answer 1

Per this article, you will need to tell Rails to serve static assets itself with:

config.serve_static_assets = true

in your config/environments/production.rb

Answer 2

Alternatively you can add the rails_12factor gem to the production group:

gem 'rails_12factor', group: :production

according to Heroku. This will also redirect log to stdout as also required by Heroku.