Viewport meta tag removed from application layout during `rails new`

jduff · May 12, 2020, 12:12am

The last few times I’ve generated a new rails app I’ve had to add the viewport meta tag so that the page sized correctly on mobile browsers <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">.

I figured this was an easy fix so went looking, but it’s already in the main template

github.com

rails/rails/blob/f1cfe1ee7017d5fe7c1e14fc44f40df70e0b5df3/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb.tt#L5


      
          <!DOCTYPE html>
          <html>
            <head>
              <title><%= camelized %></title>
              <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
              <%%= csrf_meta_tags %>
              <%%= csp_meta_tag %>
          
          
    <%- if options[:skip_javascript] -%>
              <%%= stylesheet_link_tag 'application', media: 'all' %>
              <%- else -%>
                <%- unless options[:skip_turbolinks] -%>
              <%%= stylesheet_link_tag 'application', media: 'all', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>
              <%%= javascript_pack_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>
                <%- else -%>

Somewhere along the way with rails new this is getting stripped out, I spent some time looking but couldn’t figure out where that might be. I just tried rails new with rails version 6.0.3 and the same thing happened, meta tag missing.

Betsy_Haibel · May 12, 2020, 1:41am

Could you report this as an issue and link it in Interactive “rails new”? There’s a lot of energy there around improving the Rails scaffolding process, so maybe we can knock this issue out that way.

jduff · May 13, 2020, 5:21pm

It looks like the change just hasn’t been released yet and will be in the rails 6.1 release Viewport meta tag removed from application layout during `rails new` · Issue #39270 · rails/rails · GitHub

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