rake assets:precompile is slow in production

Question

My ruby on rails app take about half an hour to complete a deployment. The longest step is

RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_GROUPS=assets bundle exec rake assets:precompile

which takes about 1073155ms

I have to wait for a long time for each deployment.

I use

ckeditor
rails_admin

I guess it is them who slow down my deployment, but I don't evidence and I don't know how to

solve it, either.

My other environments are as follows:

rails 4.0.3
ruby 2.1.1

My production.rb about assets is

config.serve_static_assets = false

# Compress JavaScripts and CSS.
config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier
# config.assets.css_compressor = :sass

# Do not fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed.
config.assets.compile = true

# Generate digests for assets URLs.
config.assets.digest = true

# Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets.
config.assets.version = '1.0'

Answer 1

Try to skip compiling ckeditor assets

config/environments/production.rb

  require_relative '../../lib/assets/selective_assets_compressor'
  config.assets.js_compressor = SelectiveAssetsCompressor.new

lib/assets/selective_assets_compressor.rb

class SelectiveAssetsCompressor < Uglifier
  def initialize(options = {})
    super(options)
  end

  def compress(string)
    if string =~ /CKSource/
      string
    else
      super(string)
    end
  end
end

Answer 2

For faster asset precompiles, you can setting config.assets.initialize_on_precompile to false in config/application.rb. Heroku requires this to be false.

config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false

If you do that, be sure to test rake assets:precompile locally because the complete environment is not loaded, engines (or other gems) will not be loaded, which can cause missing assets.

In the other hand you can execute asset precompile before deploy locally and deploy the files precompiled.