Why would rake assets:precompile take forever?

Question

Our RoR app uses quite a few assets that need to be precompiled. It usually took several minutes for assets:precompile to run.

However recently something very strange happened: simple rake assets:precompile never ends (waited few hours).

I've found a workaround:

rake assets:precompile --trace

However it would be great to fix it anyways. Any ideas about a reason?

Oh, --trace is that's what I meant instead of --quiet. Running it with trace completes without problems. Which is weird. — madutis, Jul 07 '12 at 19:34
If you interrupt (`Ctrl-C`) the infinite precompile perhaps the the stack trace can give some clues? — Casper, Jul 07 '12 at 22:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 02 '13 at 13:29

Does it take forever on your local machine or on the production server?

I had a similar thing when I deployed my app to a AWS micro instance. It took to much CPU and then AWS limits the cpu. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts_micro_instances.html

Now I precompile my assets locally and the problem is gone.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '13 at 07:05

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I had this same issue and came across this awesome gem (by Steve Agalloco) via a gist somewhere. Anyway, works a charm!

answered Nov 21 '13 at 07:05

Tyrone Wilson

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