Workarounds for compilation errors in the Heroku asset pipeline

deploy.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

printf "Precompiling assets..."
rake assets:precompile
printf "\nCommitting assets to git..."
git add public/assets/
git commit -am "Update asset pipeline"
printf "\nDeploying to Heroku..."
git push heroku
printf "\nRemoving assets..."
rm -rf public/assets
git commit -am "Remove asset pipeline..."
printf "\nPushing changes..."
git push origin
printf "\n"

Or you can do this:

# https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3x-asset-pipeline-cedar#troubleshooting
# While precompiling assets, in Rails 3.1.1 and up, you can prevent initializing your 
# application and connecting to the database by ensuring that the following line is in 
# your config/application.rb:
config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false