Disabling compilation for tests, but only on CI

[davidwessman]

Hello!

I want to make sure that during CI, we only rely on the precompiled assets and not compiling anything when the tests are running.
However, when tests locally I would like it to recompile the assets to avoid testing with stale assets (since there is no forced precompilation like we do in CI).

I tried adding a separate test_ci environment in shakapacker.yaml but that did not work well.
I have not been able to find any environment variable or such I can use, how would you go about this?

My config is very similar to this:
https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker/blob/master/lib/install/config/shakapacker.yml#L106

[tomdracz]

Adding separate environment in shakapacker.yml should work as long as that environment is also defined in the Rails app as far as I can see through the code.

One option would be to have shakapacker_ci.yml or similar that sets compile: false and then on CI pass it using env variable SHAKAPACKER_CONFIG to point at this overridden config

[davidwessman]

😮 the separate file sounds like a nice solution. Thanks 😊