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FireDragon
FireDragon

Reputation: 9385

Javascript not working in production: Nginx, Passenger, Rails on Ubuntu Server (Node.js?)

Do I need to install/config Node.js to get Javascript running? Is this the simplest solution, seeing that my site has really low traffic?

Javascript doesn't seem to work for me but only in production for a site I am running. The site is setup on the latest version of Ubuntu Server, with Nginx and Passenger (it's a Ruby on Rails app). The site runs great and fast for the past few months, but Javascripts (in particular, things like Twitter Bootstrap's tooltip, etc.) don't run on this production server although they work in my testing/dev environments.

My thoughts are that Javascript is broken b/c I need to install/configure Node.js? I've seen Node.js mentioned in some deployment setup guides but can't find detailed info into if this is necessary.

My site is very low traffic (maybe 3-5 users at any time) for a small company website. The only reason I needed to setup my own web server is that I needed to run the app on the private company network to access certain resources.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1790

Answers (1)

Alexander Randa
Alexander Randa

Reputation: 870

By default your js/css don't compiled. You should precompile them.

You can run "bundle exec rake assets:precompile" on your computer and deploy compiled code to the server. Instead node.js you can use therubyracer gem.

For more information read rails guide

Upvotes: 1

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