Styling for error pages

[thiagoarrais]

I'm trying to fix ruby-bench#46

The pull request is currently just a first draft. I intend to build something
together with you people.

Please take a look at my modified 404 page.

I've started from the HTML for the "Contributing" page and changed it to make a 404 message. Is this a step in the right direction? I mean... In the visual style sense?

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[thiagoarrais]

My Rails is a little rusty, so I'll need a little help here.

I've tried adding this to config/initializers/assets.rb:

Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += %w( 404.html 422.html 500.html )

I couldn't see any difference. I still need to run assets:precompile before starting the webserver. And this explicit precompilation step already worked before the change. I'm a little lost on what is the expected behavior.

[anonydog]

noahgibbs said:

If you precompile the assets in the initializer, that means that starting the server should be enough to make those assets show up. Unfortunately, just that line won't do it -- adding those to the list of assets to compile only helps if you're actually compiling assets, which doesn't happen by default when you start the server. I'm not sure how you run a Rake task on app startup outside of Rake, nor how you would run the asset precompile without running the Rake task. But presumably you'd need to do one of those two.