Ruby on Rails

the error you are getting running rake assets:precompile locally is that you probably do npt have the production database setup locally and for some reason it tries to connect to the production database, I fixed this error by simply creating the production database locally.

I can't help with the other problem as I am still trying to figure out how to deploy these assets, they really seem more trouble than they are worth ;)

after('deploy:symlink', 'assets:precompile')
 
namespace :assets do
  desc 'Precompile assets'
 
  task :precompile, :roles => :app do
 
    run "cd #{current_path}; RAILS_ENV=#{stage} rake assets:precompile"
 
  end
end