Static PDF file on rails app not showing on website upon deploying

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I've added this line <p><%= link_to 'Download My Resume', "resume.pdf", { :class=>"btn btn-default btn-lg" } %></p> to my html.erb, the link works perfectly on my local server but when I deploy it to my aws server, the webpage cannot be opened.

error message in logs:

ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/resume.pdf"):

I'm using Rails 5.1.6. I've already set config.public_file_server.enabled = true I'm pretty perplexed on what's going on, would appreciate some help. I do not want to use any pdf gem.

Thanks!

but can you give more information about it? resume.pdf is what, an static file? do you want to create a pdf from the same view? — xploshioOn, Jun 07 '18 at 17:32
do you have puma as the server? where is the file on the app, do you have config.serve_static_assets set to true? do you have nginx too or just the rails server? — xploshioOn, Jun 07 '18 at 18:27
I tried config.serve_static_assets set to true, doesn't work. — ttinggggg, Jun 07 '18 at 18:51
the file is available on the server? are you sure is on the public folder? remember that the folder or the file can be in the gitignore — xploshioOn, Jun 07 '18 at 18:52
100% sure is at the public folder. If not, it wouldn't have work on my local server too. I'm using rails 5.1.6, you sure that works for this version too? — ttinggggg, Jun 07 '18 at 19:47
I can't login with ssh. But I went into my aws elastic beanstalk to download my latest application version and it is there. — ttinggggg, Jun 07 '18 at 20:33

xploshioOn · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-07T23:46:12.030

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if you have just puma as the server, be sure that you set

config.public_file_server.enabled = true

in your production.rb file.

But I recommend to use nginx to serve this type of files.

I made a simple test starting a server in production mode and the error I have when trying to go to a public file is that the secret_key_base isn't set for production environment. I added a value for that on environments/production.rb and it worked

config.secret_key_base = ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"]

and of course, SECRET_KEY_BASE needs to have a value.

edited Jun 07 '18 at 23:46

answered Jun 07 '18 at 18:29

xploshioOn

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Manage to ssh in and saw the file is there. Also researched that config.serve_static_assets is deprecated, rails 5 is using config.public_file_server.enabled = true. Anyway, it still doesn't work for me ! – ttinggggg Jun 07 '18 at 23:28
you are right, updated. and added more comments with a real test. – xploshioOn Jun 07 '18 at 23:47
thank you for your effort @xploshioon but my error message wasn't that, mine was ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/resume.pdf") – ttinggggg Jun 08 '18 at 13:58
awesome that yours worked though, you mean you replaced the value with SECRET_KEY_BASE? – ttinggggg Jun 08 '18 at 13:59
omg it worked suddenly! i didn't touch the code at all and it worked after a night of sleep ?! – ttinggggg Jun 08 '18 at 14:36
Sometimes it happens – xploshioOn Jun 08 '18 at 14:42

Static PDF file on rails app not showing on website upon deploying

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