How to disable the asset pipeline?

[Juliusz Gonera]

Hi,

I'm trying to use Rails for the first time and since 3.1 is already in
RC stage I thought I'd use it. The problem is I don't want any of the
asset pipeline functionality. I decided to use RequireJS in my project
and I simply don't need asset pipeline or Sprockets. I tried
commenting out config.assets.enabled = true in application.rb or
setting it to false.

I also put

require "action_controller/railtie"
require "action_mailer/railtie"
require "active_resource/railtie"
require "rails/test_unit/railtie"

instead of require 'rails/all'

No matter what I do, when I run rails server I get the "Could not find
a JavaScript runtime" error. Is it impossible to disable the asset
pipeline or is JavaScript runtime needed for something else?

Regards,
Juliusz Gonera

[Dieter Lunn]

In your application.rb file change config.assets.enabled to false.

Dieter Lunn
http://ubiety.ca

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[Juliusz Gonera]

I'll just quote myself:

"I tried commenting out config.assets.enabled = true in application.rb
or
setting it to false."

[Dieter Lunn]

Should have paid more attention sorry. Do you have the execjs gem installed?

Dieter Lunn
http://ubiety.ca

[Juliusz Gonera]

At the moment no. I recreated the gemset and commented out those lines
in my Gemfile before running bundle install:

#gem 'coffee-script'
#gem 'uglifier'
#gem 'jquery-rails'

Seems it doesn't require a JavaScript runtime anymore.

It seems weird to me though that with config.assets.enabled = false
something still tried to use a JS engine.

On Jun 16, 9:03 pm, Dieter Lunn <coder2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should have paid more attention sorry. Do you have the execjs gem installed?
>

> Dieter Lunnhttp://ubiety.ca

[Dieter Lunn]

coffee-script requires execjs to compile the javascript files. Even
with the asset pipeline disabled and coffee-script is required in your
gemfile it will require execjs along with it.

Dieter Lunn
http://ubiety.ca

[Juliusz Gonera]

Thanks, this clears it up.

On Jun 17, 6:14 am, Dieter Lunn <coder2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> coffee-script requires execjs to compile the javascript files. Even
> with the asset pipeline disabled and coffee-script is required in your
> gemfile it will require execjs along with it.
>