The asset pipeline does not like files that look like fingerprints
If you have a file that looks like a precompilation fingerprint Show archive.org snapshot , the Rails asset pipeline will not see it. So don't have filenames like this:
8e21264d-f678-4005-b90c-8d8288a0d179.ttf
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