Rake aborted! when locally Precompiling Assets

Question

When running bundle exec rake assets:precompile on my dev machine I get a rake aborted error:

cannot load such file -- rack/google_analytics

This is in my gemfile in the production group so isn't installed on my dev machine:

group :production do
    gem 'rack-google_analytics', :require => "rack/google_analytics"
end

Any ideas how to fix this? I am running rake 0.9.2.2 and Rails 3.2.1. If required, I can provide more info.

Not sure if you seen this already? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8020852/rails-3-1-1-deploy-to-heroku-failing — satish v, Jul 06 '12 at 20:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '12 at 20:52

1

When I changed the following value to true from false (in config/environments/production.rb), I could get rid of the above error

config.assets.compile = true

answered Jul 06 '12 at 20:52

satish v

I'm afraid this didn't work for me, I was still seeing the error. – Rich Jul 09 '12 at 06:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 09 '12 at 06:51

1

The only way I could resolve this was to comment out the Production group in my gemfile, and then running:

bundle install
bundle exec rake assets:precompile

Then uncommenting, running bundle install again and pushing to git/deploying with capistrano.

answered Jul 09 '12 at 06:51

Rich

I'd like to resolve a proper answer, rather than this hack though. The reason I'm precompiling locally is that I can't use `load 'deploy/assets'` in my capfile as the production server chokes from not having devlopment/test group gems (specificially it aborts rake with `no such file to load -- faker`. So if someone can suggest a better answer, I can set them as the accepted answer instead. – Rich Jul 09 '12 at 06:52

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 17:23

I'm guessing the reason you are experiencing this is that you had previously done a:

bundle install --without production

Some versions of bundler cache this command and run it as default. Try running something like this to clear the cache:

bundle install --without santa

Your next command

bundle exec rake assets:precompile

should work fine again.

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