By miso
I ran into an error when deploying a Rails application. It seems that Webpack command is not found even though I have added the webpack gem to the Gemfile.
[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.520712 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/stimulus-autoloader-c584942b568ba74879da31c7c3d51366737bacaf6fbae659383c0a5653685693.js
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[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.523900 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/stimulus-importmap-autoloader-db2076c783bf2dbee1226e2add52fef290b5d31b5bcd1edd999ac8a6dd31c44a.js.gz
[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.527056 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/stimulus-loading-1fc59770fb1654500044afd3f5f6d7d00800e5be36746d55b94a2963a7a228aa.js
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[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.527929 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/stimulus.min-900648768bd96f3faeba359cf33c1bd01ca424ca4d2d05f36a5d8345112ae93c.js
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[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.528814 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/stimulus-autoloader-c584942b568ba74879da31c7c3d51366737bacaf6fbae659383c0a5653685693.js.gz
[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.529248 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/stimulus-importmap-autoloader-db2076c783bf2dbee1226e2add52fef290b5d31b5bcd1edd999ac8a6dd31c44a.js
[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.529512 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/stimulus-importmap-autoloader-db2076c783bf2dbee1226e2add52fef290b5d31b5bcd1edd999ac8a6dd31c44a.js.gz
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[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.530338 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/stimulus-loading-1fc59770fb1654500044afd3f5f6d7d00800e5be36746d55b94a2963a7a228aa.js.gz
[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.530976 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/stimulus.min.js-5cdf38f474c7d64a568a43e5de78b4313515aa0e4bd3d13fac297fffeba809f0.map
[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.533055 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/activestorage-3ab61e47dd4ee2d79db525ade1dca2ede0ea2b7371fe587e408ee37b7ade265d.js
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[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.536455 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/activestorage.esm-01f58a45d77495cdfbdfcc872902a430426c4391634ec9c3da5f69fbf8418492.js
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[2022-07-14 15:11:20] I, [2022-07-14T15:11:20.537184 #777] INFO -- : Writing /workspace/public/assets/actioncable-da745289dc396d1588ddfd149d68bb8e519d9e7059903aa2bb98cfc57be6d66e.js
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[2022-07-14 15:11:21] Compiling...
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] Compilation failed:
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] yarn run v1.22.19
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
[2022-07-14 15:11:23]
[2022-07-14 15:11:23]
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] warning package.json: No license field
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] warning package.json: No license field
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] error Command "webpack" not found.
[2022-07-14 15:11:23]
[2022-07-14 15:11:23]
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] !
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] ! Precompiling assets failed.
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] !
[2022-07-14 15:11:23] ERROR: failed to build: exit status 1
[2022-07-14 15:11:24]
[2022-07-14 15:11:24] For documentation on the buildpacks used to build your app, please see:
[2022-07-14 15:11:24]
[2022-07-14 15:11:24] Ruby v0.230.3 https://do.co/apps-buildpack-ruby
[2022-07-14 15:11:24]
[2022-07-14 15:11:24] ! Build failed
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I’m not 100% clear on the cause of this, but it appears some combination of Rails 7 and gems no longer automatically runs “yarn” before the assets:precompile task, so you need to ensure it’s run in order to install webpacker and your other prerequisites.
If your issue is the same as mine, you might have luck creating an initializer in, say, lib/tasks/before_assets_precompile.rake with the following content:
task before_assets_precompile: :environment do
system('yarn')
end
# every time you execute 'rake assets:precompile'
# run 'before_assets_precompile' first
Rake::Task['assets:precompile'].enhance ['before_assets_precompile']
I’ve run into the same issue after upgrading to rails 7. Oddly, it works fine when precompiling locally. Perhaps it’s the buildpack… Did you figure out how to resolve it?
EDIT: This issue seems to pinpoint why this is happening, and recommends a similar approach to Neil (although only the enhance line is needed)
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