404 on assets/stimulus-loading.js with config.assets.digest set to false

[hotwired]

404 on assets/stimulus-loading.js with config.assets.digest set to false

[stefanoc]

@dhh personally I never do it, but I was having some trouble with assets recompilation in development, and one of the suggested solutions was to set this in config/development.rb:

config.assets.compile = true
config.assets.digest = false

This is how I stumbled upon this issue.

[abumalick]

I was turning it off because of this issue with livereload: guard/guard-livereload#169 (comment)

[tripptuttle]

Hi @mrkcor, I just came to this repo to report the same bug. Thank you for the workarounds!

[awwaiid]

Possibly related to rails/sprockets#749

[stefanoc]

@dhh this is easily reproducible with the latest stable Rails release (7.0.7):

% rails new assets-test && cd assets-test
% echo "Rails.application.config.assets.digest = false" >> config/initializers/assets.rb
% bin/rails s &
% curl http://localhost:3000/assets/stimulus-loading.js 

[dhh]

I had missed this was a specific issue with turning off assets digest. Why are folks doing that? Keeping those digests in development is the preferred approach. But I'll reopen anyway.

[jontebol]

I had missed this was a specific issue with turning off assets digest. Why are folks doing that? Keeping those digests in development is the preferred approach. But I'll reopen anyway.

@dhh, I also got bitten by this when used together with guard/guard-livereload#169 (comment). Live reloading is wonderful together with Tailwind, makes designing directly in the browser so quick that I've stopped using Figma. However, setting up live reloading in Rails is usually a hassle. Have used chokidar with node earlier, and now using guard + rack-livereload. Neither option is as simple as it should be. Would be great to have a canonical and easy way to get it working on a new rails app without lot's of tricky dependencies.

[mrkcor]

You're welcome @tripptuttle 😃

[rogerkk]

Thanks @mrkcor, this helped me as well!

[mrkcor]

You're welcome @rogerkk 🙂

[dhh]

Unable to reproduce on latest Rails and latest dependencies against a new stock app.