Fix assets not available in production

config/deploy/staging.rb

@@ -22,4 +22,13 @@
       end
     end
   end
+  before :publishing, :asset_stuff do
+    on roles :web do
+      within release_path do
+        with rails_env: fetch(:rails_env) do
+          execute :rake, 'assets:nodigest'
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
 end

config/environments/staging.rb

@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@
   # Compress JavaScripts and CSS.
   config.assets.js_compressor = :terser
 
+  # Do not fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed.
+  config.assets.compile = false
+
   # Asset digests allow you to set far-future HTTP expiration dates on all assets,
   # yet still be able to expire them through the digest params.
   config.assets.digest = true

config/initializers/assets.rb

@@ -13,4 +13,7 @@
 # folder are already added.
 # Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += %w( admin.js admin.css )
 
-Rails.application.config.assets.nodigest = []
+# These files are fetched from within other js assets
+# so they do not support rails sprockets renaming them
+# We need to provide them as assets without digest
+Rails.application.config.assets.nodigest = ['*.nodigest.js', '*.load_by_url']

config/webpack/webpack.config.js

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ const config = {
         filename: "[name].js",
         sourceMapFilename: "[name].js.map",
         path: path.resolve(__dirname, "..", "..", "app/assets/builds"),
-        chunkFilename: "[name].[chunkhash].js",
+        chunkFilename: "[name].[chunkhash].nodigest.js",
     },
     resolve: {
         modules: ["node_modules", "app/assets/javascripts"],

lib/tasks/assets.rake

@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ namespace :assets do
   task nodigest: :environment do
     assets_path = File.join(Rails.root, 'public', Rails.configuration.assets.prefix)
     Rails.configuration.assets.nodigest.each do |asset|
-      source = File.join('app/assets/javascripts', asset)
-      dest = File.join(assets_path, asset)
-      FileUtils.copy_file(source, dest)
+      Dir.glob(File.join('app/assets/builds', asset)).each do |source_path|
+        file_name = File.basename(source_path)
+        dest_path = File.join(assets_path, file_name)
+        FileUtils.copy_file(source_path, dest_path)
+      end
     end
   end
 end