Images disappear on refresh in heroku-hosted rails application

Question

Let me say first that I'm quite new and inexperienced with rails. Today I tried to update an image in a rails app hosted on Heroku. Anyway, this is the simple flow I followed as I did other times before:

1. Add updated image to the image folder
2. Precompile the assets rake assets:precompile
3. Add and commit all changes
4. Push to heroku

Until this point all seems fine: I open Chrome to check my app from my domain and it's all there as expected.

The problem is that if I refresh the page all the images disappear (like they have never been loaded). This does not happen locally. If I do a ctrl+f5 it all comes back nicely, but I lose everything again on simple refresh.. and so on.

Has anyone experienced something similar? I understand this might be hard to answer as there is not much code to show. Let me know if I can give more details.

On a final note, it seems that all works normally on a friends machine (that is, refresh doesn't give this problem). I'm thinking something might be wrong with my Chrome settings here? I don't remember having changed anything recently though.

This is very weird and quite annoying some help/insights would be great.

UPDATE: This seems indeed really to happen locally on my machine at work. I checked from another couple of computers at home and the app is displayed fine (without any refreshing problem).

Answer 1

Did you check if the cookie is disabled by your browser for the heroku website in particular?

I have just tested this issue with an image based website ( https://unsplash.com/ ). When the cookie is disabled for that website, pressing F5 clears all the images, while pressing Ctrl-F5 brings those lost resources back as like as your case.

Enabling cookie resolves the issue in my case.