Doesn't work with rails 3.1 on Heroku cedar stack

[davidkariuki]

See attached stack trace. The gem is installed on heroku but for some reason @import can't find bourbon. No problems in development.

2011-09-18T21:34:09+00:00 app[web.1]: Processing by PagesController#home as HTML
2011-09-18T21:34:09+00:00 app[web.1]: Rendered pages/home.html.haml within layouts/application (5.5ms)
2011-09-18T21:34:10+00:00 app[web.1]: Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 394ms
2011-09-18T21:34:10+00:00 app[web.1]:
2011-09-18T21:34:10+00:00 app[web.1]: ActionView::Template::Error (File to import not found or unreadable: bourbon.
2011-09-18T21:34:10+00:00 app[web.1]: Load path: /app
2011-09-18T21:34:10+00:00 app[web.1]: (in /app/app/assets/stylesheets/application.css.sass)):

[mjankowski]

Hi David, what gems do you have installed? What does your production.rb config look like re: the asset pipeline?

Can you paste the relevant part of your application.css.sass ?

[mjankowski]

Can you also confirm how you are including the stylesheets from your layout?

[nhocki]

I've had that same problem on production. I've solved it by removing the 'assets' group from the Gemfile (weird).

Maybe that'll help.

[mjankowski]

Things maybe relevant to this, curious to hear what you guys are doing...

• In your config/application.rb, which Bundler.require line are you using?
• Do you have the sass-rails gem installed, or just sass gem?
• How do you include your stylesheets from the layout?
• Are you doing any "precompile" of assets or relying totally on heroku to do this?

[czj]

I've had the same problem for several days and nothing seems to fix it. All versions of Bourbon give me the same problem : works for assets pre-compilation but I get an error message when running production on Heroku.

I have tried gem "bourbon" at the root of the Gemfile or in the "assets" group. I have also tried @import "bourbon" in the root sass file or in each of the imported sass files.

I am not using SCSS but SASS syntax, don't know if this might be an issue (I guess not).

[mjankowski]

Additional question to my previous batch -- make sure you've run rake rails:update to get the asset pipeline related changes to run in your production/staging/whatever environments on heroku.

[czj]

I forgot to say it is a brand new Rails 3.1 application, made from scratch for/with the assets pipeline / sass / bourbon or compass in mind.

[nickmjones]

I had the same issue. I did a 'bundle update' and the deployment seemed to work the second time. My config is totally plain vanilla, nearly bone-stock Rails 3.1. Having an "assets" group didn't seem to make a difference.

[mjankowski]

For anyone still having this issue - please provide us with the info that my 9/26 and 10/7 comments ask for so we can attempt to debug.

[chrism]

Same problem:

1

Bundler.require *Rails.groups(:assets => %w(development test))

2

sass-rails installed

3

like this

@import "bourbon";
@import 'flutie';
@import 'scaffolds';

using application.css.scss

4

would like to use heroku to precompile during deployment

many thanks for any help!

[nm]

I also got the same problem:

1. Bundler.require *Rails.groups(:assets => %w(development test))
2. sass-rails installed
3. @import "bourbon"; (application.css.scss)
4. When I precompile the assets locally it works, but I'd like to rely totally on heroku

Thx in advance!

[czj]

One way to fix the problem might be to have a "main" css file without anything specific and not forgetting to include it in your application.rb :

# We need admin javascript & css assets to be precompiled too
config.assets.precompile += ['login.css', 'admin.css', 'admin.js']

Then your admin.css should be simple :

/*
*= require_tree ./admin
*/

It worked for me.

[seivan]

I still got this issue.
Rails 3.2
Bourbon is outside of the asset group. Works fine in dev, not on Heroku.
ctionView::Template::Error (File to import not found or unreadable: bourbon.

*= require bootstrap/bootstrap
*= require_self

*/

@import "bourbon";

[seivan]

Any progress on this?

[erikostling]

I'm also getting the same problem as @seivan when deploying a Rails 3.2.1 app to Heroku with bourbon 1.3.6.

(ps. Seems to be Active admin causing the problem though… ds)

(ps 2. This solved my problem: https://gist.github.com/1197686 ds.)

[rkleine]

https://gist.github.com/1197686 also solve for me.

[gdakram]

+1 for @rkleine15 and @erikostling tip.

[dtt101]

Just a note - this isn't anything to do with Bourbon I don't think, rather the case that your app is trying to connect to the database when assets:precompile is run on heroku. There is an article here explaining the issue: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3x-asset-pipeline-cedar

The solution for me was to add the following line to config/application.rb

config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false

I then followed the Bourbon installation instructions for Rails 3.1.x as documented here: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon

I am running Rails 3.2.1

[gmassanek]

@ugisozols gist fixed this for me, thanks! https://gist.github.com/1197686.
Note: I was having this issue on my own VPS, not Heroku. Using Rails 3.1.1

[gonzofy]

dtt101: thanks for that. Just ran into the same thing and it worked for me.

[goodtimeaj]

config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false works for me. Thanks.

[mikekellyio]

@dtt101: excellent! that's the trick.

[darthniwo]

https://gist.github.com/1197686 is working just fine, I'm running rails 3.2.1, also tested on heroku