Description
Sort of related to #251. If the error messages I had gotten had included more information, perhaps it wouldn't matter that the documentation hadn't helped me.
This is with a brand new rails 4.2.5.1 app and sprockets 3.5.2.
The relevant part of that issue to this issue is that I had a file in app/assets/other_javascripts/f.js
(a sibling directory to app/assets/javascripts
, not a subdirectory) and I tried to require it in app/assets/javascripts/application.js
by adding require ../other_javascripts/f
. () When I run rake assets:precompile
in this state, I get this error message:
Sprockets::FileNotFound: couldn't find file '../other_javascripts/f' under '/Users/carolnichols/Ruby/sprockets-test-app/app/assets/javascripts' with type 'application/javascript'
Now, I know app/assets/javascripts isn't the only place sprockets is looking, since the comment at the top of application.js says I can also put js in lib/assets/javascripts and vendor/assets/javascripts and reference them directly here.
I also happen to know that if I instead use require f
, sprockets DOES find app/assets/other_javascripts/f.js
(https://github.com/carols10cents/sprockets-test-app/commit/cb1315e645e5f2118776caf62b6667f7cbe323b5), so it's clearly looking more places.
It'd be great if the error message for Sprockets::FileNotFound
showed me all the paths sprockets was looking for assets, and showed me how it was resolving the paths, so that I could understand and correct the path I'm putting into application.js.