How to disable the asset pipeline?

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I'm trying to use Rails for the first time and since 3.1 is already in RC stage I thought I'd use it. The problem is I don't want any of the asset pipeline functionality. I decided to use RequireJS in my project and I simply don't need asset pipeline or Sprockets. I tried commenting out config.assets.enabled = true in application.rb or setting it to false.

I also put

require "action_controller/railtie" require "action_mailer/railtie" require "active_resource/railtie" require "rails/test_unit/railtie"

instead of require 'rails/all'

No matter what I do, when I run rails server I get the "Could not find a JavaScript runtime" error. Is it impossible to disable the asset pipeline or is JavaScript runtime needed for something else?

Regards, Juliusz Gonera

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In your application.rb file change config.assets.enabled to false.

Dieter Lunn http://ubiety.ca

3

I'll just quote myself:

"I tried commenting out config.assets.enabled = true in application.rb or setting it to false."

4

Should have paid more attention sorry. Do you have the execjs gem installed?

Dieter Lunn http://ubiety.ca

5

At the moment no. I recreated the gemset and commented out those lines in my Gemfile before running bundle install:

#gem 'coffee-script' #gem 'uglifier' #gem 'jquery-rails'

Seems it doesn't require a JavaScript runtime anymore.

It seems weird to me though that with config.assets.enabled = false something still tried to use a JS engine.

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coffee-script requires execjs to compile the javascript files. Even with the asset pipeline disabled and coffee-script is required in your gemfile it will require execjs along with it.

Dieter Lunn http://ubiety.ca

7

Thanks, this clears it up.