Why does Rails default to breaking your application?

production.rb

YourApp::Application.configure do
  # Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb
  
  # ...
  
  # Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
  config.serve_static_assets = false

  # Compress JavaScripts and CSS
  config.assets.compress = true

  # Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
  config.assets.compile = false
end