[alinajaf]

> I think S3 is a great origin server for static assets

Pro-tip: If you're using Rails, just create a distribution with your app as the origin server and in production.rb, set your asset host to your distributions host. You get the asset cache without having to do the precompile step. Tastes great with Heroku.

[amalag]

This is smart, I usually use the precompile with upload to S3 via asset_sync gem. Since Heroku will precompile by default, what do you do to disable it. Just turning on config.serve_static_assets = true is likely not enough.

[alinajaf]

> This is smart, I usually use the precompile with upload to S3 via asset_sync gem

I used to do the same until cloudfront rolled out custom origins.

> Since Heroku will precompile by default, what do you do to disable it.

I misspoke in my comment, what I meant was you can skip the synch with S3 step. I've never actually bothered to stop heroku precompiling assets (though I may as well). This question on SO looks promising:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8953360/preventing-heroku...

If you do that though, as you mentioned, you will definitely need to flip serve_static_assets on.