How does one rake assetpack:build assets to public folder in a Sinatra classic app? (Also: If precompiling is unnecessary, how to serve static assets with Apache?)

[alancwoo]

I was wondering how to build out my assets via rake assetpack:build if I am creating a classic app? I am unable to precompile the assets if I don't define APP_CLASS = 'App'.

Defining APP_CLASS = 'App' results in the error: NameError: uninitialized constant App

A further question I have is, the documentation mentions that precompiling is unnecessary. I was wondering then, how to ensure that these static assets will be served by Apache (or other web server) when deploying the app? Would it simply be a matter of reconfiguring AssetPack to serve from and build to the public directory instead of /App?

[lpil]

Have you tried this?

APP_CLASS = 'Sinatra::Application'

[rstacruz]

A further question I have is, the documentation mentions that precompiling is unnecessary. I was wondering then, how to ensure that these static assets will be served by Apache (or other web server) when deploying the app?

Precompiling is "unnecessary" because they're served dynamically by the Sinatra app. This isn't exactly always the most ideal thing, but it works on almost all setups (most notably Heroku). If you need Apache to serve the assets statically, add the precompilation step to your deployment process.