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Ruby

Posted by M P
M P
12,717 Points

Can't load css and js files in Ruby App.

I have a problem with "Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application", after struggle with Rails 4 I downgraded and started from the beginning with Rails 3.2.6 and treehouse VirtualBox, but now I have another problem: I can't load css and js files. I only get application.css and apllication.js.

<head>
  <title>Treebook</title>
  <link href="/assets/application.css?body=1" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
  <script src="/assets/application.js?body=1" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <meta content="authenticity_token" name="csrf-param" />
<meta content="yQhc6O2PTM8cVC54930W4EYkXqOggTDtwz+8yocyd4Y=" name="csrf-token" />
</head>

5 Answers

Nathan F.
Nathan F.
30,773 Points
Nathan F.
Nathan F.
30,773 Points

Where are you placing your additional CSS and JS files? Rails uses an asset pipeline that by default concatenates all of your CSS and JS assets together, and it looks for these assets in a particular folder.

M P
M P
12,717 Points
M P
M P
12,717 Points

app > assets > css(js)

M P
M P
12,717 Points
M P
M P
12,717 Points

I think the issue might be with Ruby version(I found similar problem on StackOverflow.com) , it's 2.0 and should be 1.9.3 to work properly . I will try to downgrade and see what happens.

M P
M P
12,717 Points
M P
M P
12,717 Points

After downgrading to 1.9.3 everything works fine.

Nathan F.
Nathan F.
30,773 Points
Nathan F.
Nathan F.
30,773 Points

Good to see you got it sorted out!