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Damon Aw
Damon Aw

Reputation: 4792

Do I have to run rake assets:clean before rake assets:precompile?

I deploy code to my production server using git. This might include changes to JS and CSS files.

Do I have to run rake assets:clean at all before I run rake assets:precompile? I'm worried that not cleaning the previous precompiled assets might have side effects.

This is a little silly, but my google-fu didn't find any answers. My AWS instance runs rake assets:clean pretty slowly and I'm wondering if it's needed at all.

Also, can I replace the clean command with a simple rm -r public/assets?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 6489

Answers (1)

Kyle C
Kyle C

Reputation: 4097

No you do not need to run rake assets:clean before, just running rake assets:precompile will recompile your assets. It will recreate your cache busting digest and manifest.yml (which contains key/value mappings that match each asset name to its MD5 cache-busted name)

and yes you can just run rm -r public/assets

Upvotes: 12

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