Rails Asset Pipeline CSS different on remote than in development

Question

I'm having a small issue where my compiled CSS on my deployed app is ever so slightly different to the compiled CSS locally in Development. Thankfully it's causing one minor problem.

I'm using cssbundling-rails to compile my SASS and to output the file into the assets/builds directory.

If, when I deploy my app, the CSS gets compiled on the server, is it right that the files in my assets/builds directory locally get committed into my git repo?

Should I exclude them? If so then what do I add to my .gitignore file?

I'm just unsure what to ignore and what should and should not be committed etc when using that gem.

Answer 1

I think, assets/builds is committed, but public/assets is by default excluded in your .gitignore.

When you deploy your app, rails compiles the assets automatically docs.

If you want to be sure it is the same, you could delete the public/assets folder and run rails assets:precompile directly before deploying.