Assets for dashboard are not compatible with Asset Pipeline

[iwz]

When deploying to a production environment, the /split assets are not made available on the expected path. For example, /split/reset.css is a 404.

This seems to be because the engine does not use the recommended way of referring to assets for engines. Specifically, this section:

You can define assets for precompilation in engine.rb:

initializer "blorgh.assets.precompile" do |app|
  app.config.assets.precompile += %w( admin.js admin.css )
end

Instead of using the asset pipeline helpers like stylesheet_link_tag and javasript_include_tag in the Application Layout, the code is using a url method from the helpers. This is less compatible with some deploy environments than the asset pipeline.

A workaround is to extract the js and css assets from the gem and copy them into your host application under public/split. By doing so, the deployed split dashboard code will be able to find http://domain.com/split/reset.css, for example. I've implemented this workaround in my codebase and it does the trick.

I may open a PR in the near future to fix this up, but in the meantime I wanted to share this information with the community in case others struggle with this.

[andrew]

@iwz thanks for looking into this, a pull request to improve this would be 👌 when you have time.

[ayb]

+1