Sometimes, for debugging purpose, it can be quite helpful to enable the Rails assets pipeline in development model.
to do this, go to config/enviroments/development.rb and add the following configuration:
config.assets.debug = false
config.assets.compile = false
config.assets.digest = true
An important thing to keep in mind is be sure to have config.assets.debug = true (the default setting) is disabled.
Finally, you only need to restart your server and then run:
rake assets:precompile