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Our site is working pretty well,
but if we load our browser's

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developer tools, here in the console,
we'll see several errors.

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It's trying to load CSS and JavaScript
files, but it isn't finding them.

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When you're working in development mode,
CSS and

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JavaScript are loaded
through the asset pipeline.

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But because this is production and

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we need speed, Rails isn't configured
to use the asset pipeline here.

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Instead, we're going to need to
precompile all those assets.

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So let's go back to our terminal,
hold the server.

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And we're going to need to run
this command in the production

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environment again, so
we'll do RAILS_ENV=production.

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We'll run the bin/rails executable again.

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And this time, we're going to
run the task, assets:precompile.

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This will look through all your CSS,
SAS, JavaScript, coffee script, etc,

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and compile those files out to
the public assets directory.

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So, hit Enter to run the command.

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And it'll show you a log
with all the files it wrote.

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Now normally in production, static assets
like this would be served by a dedicated

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web server, such as Apache or Engine X,
but we don't have those configured yet, so

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for this test app, we're gonna need to
configure Rails itself to serve them.

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In a later workshop, we'll show you how
to serve those files via your web server.

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To have Rails serve those files,

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we're going to need to set
an environment variable.

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So let's edit our rbenv.vars file again.

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I'm gonna use the nano editor and
edit the .rbenv-vars file.

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Move down to a new line,
and we're going to set

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the RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES
environment variable.

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All caps,
use underscores to separate the words.

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Then type an equal sign, and
we're gonna set the value to true.

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Again, make sure there are no
spaces surrounding the equal sign.

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Control load to write the file out,
and Ctrl+X to exit, and

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that should be all there is to it.

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Let's try running our server again.

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Now let's go back to our browser and
reload the page.

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And the warnings for
CSS and JS files are gone.

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There you have it.

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We've installed Ruby on a production
server, then deployed the Rails app to it.

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If you run into any trouble
following any of these steps or

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have a slightly different environment
than what's shown in the videos,

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be sure to check the teacher's notes for
some tips.

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Most of the configuration you've
set up can just live on the server

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from now on without any changes.

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But there are a few of these steps that
you're going to need to repeat every time

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you release a new version of your app,
such as pulling the changes from Git and

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restarting your web server.

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Doing it manually won't seem too bad at
first, but over time, the potential for

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mistakes adds up.

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So, in an upcoming course,

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we're going to show you how to automate
deploys to make them fast, easy, and safe.