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I migrated one of my projects to from Rails 3.0 to 3.2.1 which means I''m using the asset pipeline for the first time. As much as I like the ease of compressing and minifying my assets the more I''m annoyed about its behavior to raise an AssetNotPrecompiledError as soon as, well, there''s an asset that''s not precompiled. Can somebody explain me the reason why this is considered to be a good idea? For something as trivial as a missing image file the app fails completely instead of just falling back to "old style" image_tag behavi...