Mute Rails asset pipeline log messages
quiet_assets helps with disabling asset pipeline log messages in the development log. When the gem is added, asset pipeline logs are suppressed by default.
If you want to disable muting temporarily, add config.quiet_assets = false to your config/application.rb.
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