MissingExecutableError when deploying with Capistrano

[octave]

Hi,

I get this error at rake assets:precompile when deploying with Capistrano. It looks like it's not doing a yarn install first?

$HOME/.rbenv/bin/rbenv exec bundle exec rake assets:precompile
      01 Building with Vite ⚡️
      01 rake aborted!
      01 ViteRuby::MissingExecutableError: ❌ The vite binary is not available. Have you installed the npm packages?
      01
      01 Visit the Troubleshooting guide for more information:
      01   https://vite-ruby.netlify.app/guide/troubleshooting.html#troubleshooting
      01
      01 No such file or directory - /$HOME/node_modules/.bin/vite

[ElMassimo]

Hi Octave! Thanks for reporting 😃

Vite Ruby will install dependencies if assets:precompile was not defined, otherwise it assumes that webpacker or sprockets would, and skips it to avoid running install twice.

This assumption has changed given all the recent activity in the Rails ecosystem (jsbundling-rails, propshaft, etc).

Please share a minimal reproduction with the gems in the application that define the assets:precompile task before Vite Ruby does in a way that does not install dependencies.

That way we can gather more information about specific gems that might need to be taken into account in order to extend assets:precompile as needed.

[octave]

Hi @ElMassimo!

No worries! I generated my rails app with the --minimal parameter. And so my Gemfile currently look like this:

ruby "3.1.0"

# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem "rails", github: "rails/rails", branch: "main"
gem "rails", "~> 7.0.2", ">= 7.0.2.2"

# The original asset pipeline for Rails [https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails]
gem "sprockets-rails"

# Use the Puma web server [https://github.com/puma/puma]
gem "puma", "~> 5.0"

gem 'turbo-rails'

gem 'vite_rails'

If you add --css=bootstrap when generating your app it adds the gem cssbundling-rails which trig yarn install when running assets:precompile

The workaround I found for now, is to use the gem capistrano-yarn and in the capistrano production.rb I configure it like this: set :yarn_flags, '--development'.

[ElMassimo]

I think it might be reasonable to extend assets:precompile with vite:install_dependencies if webpacker, cssbundling-rails, and jsbundling-rails are not in the loaded gems.

For now, as a workaround, you can do:

Rake::Task['vite:verify_install'].enhance(['vite:install_dependencies'])

[ElMassimo]

Released a fix in vite_ruby@3..0.10.