I made a basic rails app with a simple pages controller with an index function and when I load the page I get: ActionView::Template::Error (application.css isn't precompiled): 2: <html> 3: <head> 4: <title>Demo</title> 5: <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %> 6: <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %> 7: <%= csrf_meta_tags %> 8: </head> app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:5:in `_app_view