# What command/process builds the included assets?

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Stylesheets are built by the rails app on-demand, so in theory you don’t need to do anything manually.

Running `bin/rake assets:precompile` will compile them eagerly, which can be useful if you want to create an optimised docker image for rolling out to multiple hosts.

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