Figuring out things

Author: searls

README.md

@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ config.rails_lineman.lineman_project_location = "my-lineman-app"
 
 Alternatively, rails-lineman will look for an environment variable named `LINEMAN_PROJECT_LOCATION`.
 
+Note that to prevent your Lineman JavaScript & CSS from being loaded twice in production, you'll need
+to remove the `require_tree .` directives from `app/assets/javascripts/application.js`
+and `app/assets/stylesheets/application.css`.
+
 ### the Lineman side
 
 Just add the [lineman-rails](https://github.com/testdouble/lineman-rails) plugin to your project:
@@ -110,6 +114,15 @@ Such that the `public/assets` folder looks like:
 └── manifest-c468cd8d56c4364af6110bc39b00ed40.json
 ```
 
+Note that in Rails 4, Rails will by default not serve any static assets out of
+`public/assets` when running in the production environment (leaving that up to
+Apache/nginx). To verify this is all working you may need to configure in
+`config/environments/production.rb`:
+
+``` ruby
+config.serve_static_assets = true
+```
+
 ## Heroku
 
 Somewhat humorously, rails-lineman will actually try to detect whether it's running on Heroku

app/assets/javascripts/application.js

@@ -13,4 +13,3 @@
 //= require jquery
 //= require jquery_ujs
 //= require turbolinks
-//= require_tree .

app/assets/stylesheets/application.css

@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@
  * compiled file, but it's generally better to create a new file per style scope.
  *
  *= require_self
- *= require_tree .
  */

config/environments/production.rb

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   # config.action_dispatch.rack_cache = true
 
   # Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this).
-  config.serve_static_assets = false
+  config.serve_static_assets = true
 
   # Compress JavaScripts and CSS.
   config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier