I think there is a big problem with JavaScript files in Rails 5 apps in Production environment on Heroku.
Steps to reproduce
Step 1: Creating a new Rails 5 App and switching to the root folder
rails new my_app --database=postgresql cd my_app
Step 2: Generate a controller
rails generate controller static_pages
Step 3: edit the /app/controllers/static_pages_controller file
class StaticPagesController < ApplicationController def show end
def destroy end end
Step 4: create the views to show with the actions /app/views/static_pages/show.html.erb :
this is the show view here is a link to the delete action:
<%= link_to t(‘logout’), logout_path, method: :delete %>
/app/views/static_pages/destroy.html.erb :
this is the destroy view which is called with a link_to method: :delete
Step 5: edit the /config/routes.rb file
Rails.application.routes.draw do root ‘static_pages#show’ get ‘static_pages/show’ delete ‘/logout’, to: ‘static_pages#destroy’ end
Step 6: check the routes
rails routes Prefix Verb URI Pattern Controller#Action root GET / staticpages#show staticpages_show GET /staticpages/show(.:format) staticpages#show logout DELETE /logout(.:format) staticpages#destroy rails_service_blob GET /rails/active_storage/blobs/:signed_id/*filename(.:format) active_storage/blobs#show rails_blob_representation GET /rails/active_storage/representations/:signed_blob_id/:variation_key/*filename(.:format) active_storage/representations#show rails_disk_service GET /rails/active_storage/disk/:encoded_key/*filename(.:format) active_storage/disk#show update_rails_disk_service PUT /rails/active_storage/disk/:encoded_token(.:format) active_storage/disk#update rails_direct_uploads POST /rails/active_storage/direct_uploads(.:format) active_storage/direct_uploads#create
Step 7: create the DB and migrate
rails db:create Created database ‘my_app_development’ Created database ‘my_app_test’
rails db:migrate
Step 8: start the server
rails server
Step 9: go to localhost:3000/ and click the link presented. the link works and send a delete action to the server
Started GET “/” for 127.0.0.1 at 2018-09-03 18:43:52 +0200 Processing by StaticPagesController#show as HTML Rendering static_pages/show.html.erb within layouts/application Rendered static_pages/show.html.erb within layouts/application (12.2ms) Completed 200 OK in 504ms (Views: 486.7ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)
Started DELETE “/logout” for 127.0.0.1 at 2018-09-03 18:43:57 +0200 Processing by StaticPagesController#destroy as HTML Parameters: {“authenticity_token”=>“10NHmV8N4tF3O0r/YYtKtKmHm3xthGjPAE51osb7L9skCM5ZoM2RoiCtZD4Crh9d69ndTOeNRMmIW28ipI/z9A==”} Rendering static_pages/destroy.html.erb within layouts/application Rendered static_pages/destroy.html.erb within layouts/application (0.0ms) Completed 200 OK in 90ms (Views: 73.0ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)
Step 10: create a heroku app(you have to be logged in to heroku on your system)
heroku create
Step 11: push your work to Heroku
git add -A git commit -m “init” git push --set-upstream heroku master
Step 12: open your Heroku app and do like in Step 9 and fail because JavaScript seems to not work correctly
2018-09-03T16:47:44.020623+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2018-09-03T16:47:44.020478 #4] INFO – : [7ef6b0a3-85b3-43e8-9c16-c7ff8c48fb55] Started GET “/” for 84.147.254.28 at 2018-09-03 16:47:44 +0000 2018-09-03T16:47:44.024722+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2018-09-03T16:47:44.024633 #4] INFO – : [7ef6b0a3-85b3-43e8-9c16-c7ff8c48fb55] Processing by StaticPagesController#show as HTML 2018-09-03T16:47:44.040738+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2018-09-03T16:47:44.040614 #4] INFO – : [7ef6b0a3-85b3-43e8-9c16-c7ff8c48fb55] Rendering static_pages/show.html.erb within layouts/application 2018-09-03T16:47:44.050161+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2018-09-03T16:47:44.050059 #4] INFO – : [7ef6b0a3-85b3-43e8-9c16-c7ff8c48fb55] Rendered static_pages/show.html.erb within layouts/application (9.2ms) 2018-09-03T16:47:44.052153+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2018-09-03T16:47:44.052076 #4] INFO – : [7ef6b0a3-85b3-43e8-9c16-c7ff8c48fb55] Completed 200 OK in 27ms (Views: 13.7ms) . . . 2018-09-03T16:48:05.398306+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2018-09-03T16:48:05.398164 #4] INFO – : [8a98d378-b0f3-4a6f-8424-87c696f75c6f] Started GET “/logout” for 84.147.254.28 at 2018-09-03 16:48:05 +0000 2018-09-03T16:48:05.399185+00:00 app[web.1]: F, [2018-09-03T16:48:05.399095 #4] FATAL – : [8a98d378-b0f3-4a6f-8424-87c696f75c6f] 2018-09-03T16:48:05.399450+00:00 app[web.1]: [8a98d378-b0f3-4a6f-8424-87c696f75c6f] vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.2.1/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/show_exceptions.rb:33:in ‘call’ 2018-09-03T16:48:05.399271+00:00 app[web.1]: F, [2018-09-03T16:48:05.399190 #4] FATAL – : [8a98d378-b0f3-4a6f-8424-87c696f75c6f] ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] “/logout”): 2018-09-03T16:48:05.399457+00:00 app[web.1]: [8a98d378-b0f3-4a6f-8424-87c696f75c6f] vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/railties-5.2.1/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:38:in ‘call_app’ 2018-09-03T16:48:05.399345+00:00 app[web.1]: F, [2018-09-03T16:48:05.399273 #4] FATAL – : [8a98d378-b0f3-4a6f-8424-87c696f75c6f] 2018-09-03T16:48:05.399447+00:00 app[web.1]: F, [2018-09-03T16:48:05.399369 #4] FATAL – : [8a98d378-b0f3-4a6f-8424-87c696f75c6f] vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.2.1/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/debug_exceptions.rb:65:in `call’
This is either an obvious error on Rails or on Heroku’s side as all you see I did was jsut create a fresh new rails app and changed the routes, generated a controller and made 2 views for the controller actions.
Here are the links if you want to check out all the sources for the app and the app deployed to heroku.
You can check the source code here: https://bitbucket.org/Jaiel/my_app/src/master/
And the app here: https://rocky-inlet-61318.herokuapp.com/
Expected behavior
Links with the method: :delete should work as intended and send out DELETE requests
Actual behavior
Links with method: :delete send out GET requests JavaScript not working properly
System configuration
Windows: 10 Education Rails: 5.2.1 Ruby: 2.4.4p296 Heroku: heroku/7.7.7 win32-x64 node-v10.7.0 postgres: postgres (PostgreSQL) 10.3
