# Another Day, Another Missing Image from Asset Pipeline

DevFeed: [Another Day, Another Missing Image from Asset Pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/another-day-another-missing-image-from-asset-pipeline-28278.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/rails/2022/06/04/another-day-another-missing-image-from-asset-pipeline.html>)

Author: Fuzzygroup

Published: 2022-06-04T09:21:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Scott Johnson](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scott-johnson.md>)

Topics: [Rails](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rails.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [asset-pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/asset-pipeline.md>), [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [rails](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rails.md>)

## AI overview

A personal account of troubleshooting a missing JPEG in a Rails 6 application. The image existed, was referenced like other images, and was produced by the asset compiler, but changing a setting from false to true made it render; the author says the underlying cause remains unclear.

## Source excerpt

The asset pipeline is the component of Rails that I, well, let me quote myself from a recent email: I've been tracking down that crazy image related issue for an age now and I think I just got it. Every single time it is always the damn asset pipeline (this is the one component in Rails that I have a literal deep and abiding hatred for; it is finicky code and instead of sticking with a solution they keep replacing it which I have the deep suspicion means that the heisenbugs keep migrating). I hit this again recently with this kind of crap: I, [2022-06-04T09:11:21.177736 #7055] INFO -- : [b4a4b65f-beb6-437b-b465-8cdf93a3b00d] Rendering errors/error_500.html.erb within layouts/application I, [2022-06-04T09:11:21.177896 #7055] INFO -- : [b4a4b65f-beb6-437b-b465-8cdf93a3b00d] Rendered errors/error_500.html.erb within layouts/application (Duration: 0.0ms | Allocations: 5) I, [2022-06-04T09:11:21.179045 #7055] INFO -- : [b4a4b65f-beb6-437b-b465-8cdf93a3b00d] Rendered layouts/_meta_tags.html.erb (Duration: 0.1ms | Allocations: 11) I, [2022-06-04T09:11:21.179779 #7055] INFO -- : [b4a4b65f-beb6-437b-b465-8cdf93a3b00d] Rendered layouts/_header.html.erb (Duration: 0.4ms | Allocations: 119) I, [2022-06-04T09:11:21.180298 #7055] INFO -- : [b4a4b65f-beb6-437b-b465-8cdf93a3b00d] Rendered layouts/_footer.html.erb (Duration: 0.1ms | Allocations: 27) I, [2022-06-04T09:11:21.180679 #7055] INFO -- : [b4a4b65f-beb6-437b-b465-8cdf93a3b00d] Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 8ms (Views: 3.2ms | Allocations: 2093) I, [2022-06-04T09:16:21.177692 #7055] INFO -- : [bde57e27-882b-44ff-922c-a74f218bd4e6] Started HEAD "/" for 208.115.199.28 at 2022-06-04 09:16:21 +0000 I, [2022-06-04T09:16:21.178505 #7055] INFO -- : [bde57e27-882b-44ff-922c-a74f218bd4e6] Processing by HomeController#index as HTML I, [2022-06-04T09:16:21.179534 #7055] INFO -- : [bde57e27-882b-44ff-922c-a74f218bd4e6] Rendering home/index.html.erb within layouts/application I, [2022-06-04T09:16:21.179763 #7055] INFO -- : [bde57