Update assets section of 4.2 for heroku cedar

stuartschultz · May 2, 2012 · 39d8cda · 39d8cda
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@@ -143,12 +143,13 @@ We can now navigate to `http://localhost:3000/things` and see our new scaffold a
 Assets
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-In Rails assets are precompiled.
+In Rails assets are precompiled. As of Rails 3.1.1 and the Heroku Cedar stack, this is done automatically on deployment.
 
-    RAILS_ENV=production
-    rake assets:precompile
-    git add public/assets
-    git commit -m "vendor compiled assets"
+Here are the manual steps for asset precompilation on Rails:
+
+    $ RAILS_ENV=production rake assets:precompile
+    $ git add public/assets
+    $ git commit -m "vendor compiled assets"
 
 Deploy to Heroku
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