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you786
you786

Reputation: 3550

Random routing errors in Rails public routing

I'm writing a jQuery Mobile website to be turned into a PhoneGap/Cordova app. To facilitate this, I created a brand new rails project, and after changing to the 'thin' gem for a webserver, put the entire jQuery Mobile app in the public/myapp folder of the new Rails project.

This all works fine; I can reach my mobile app from localhost:3000/myapp but after a few hours of testing suddenly the Rails app starts throwing 404s all over the place. What is likely to have happened?

This is ONE of the errors I see in the rails server logs:

ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/js/setlocation_address.js"

Basically every single reference in my <head> tag to a javascript or css file returns with a 404 error.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 939

Answers (1)

you786
you786

Reputation: 3550

I think the solution was to put

config.serve_static_assets = true

in the config/environments/production.rb file but I'm not sure if this solved the issue as it was an intermittent one.

EDIT

Actually it seems the problem was that I would sometimes go to localhost:3000/myapp and sometimes to localhost:3000/myapp/index.html .

Although Rails would route me to the same index.html page each time, my browser wouldn't pickup the relative paths correctly, and would try to GET localhost:3000/css/styles.css instead of localhost:3000/myapp/css/styles.css.

Upvotes: 1

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