diff --git a/config/environments/production.rb b/config/environments/production.rb
index 563e800..73772c8 100644
--- a/config/environments/production.rb
+++ b/config/environments/production.rb
@@ -8,11 +8,13 @@
   config.consider_all_requests_local       = false
   config.action_controller.perform_caching = true
 
-  # Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
-  config.serve_static_assets = false
+  # Disable serving static files from the `/public` folder by default since
+  # Apache or NGINX already handles this.
+  config.serve_static_files = ENV['RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES'].present?
 
-  # Compress JavaScripts and CSS
-  config.assets.compress = true
+  # Compress JavaScripts and CSS.
+  config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier
+  # config.assets.css_compressor = :sass
 
   # Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files
   # (comment out if your front-end server doesn't support this)
@@ -25,7 +27,14 @@
   # config.force_ssl = true
 
   # See everything in the log (default is :info)
-  # config.log_level = :debug
+  config.log_level = :info
+
+  # Do not fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed.
+  config.assets.compile = false
+
+  # Asset digests allow you to set far-future HTTP expiration dates on all assets,
+  # yet still be able to expire them through the digest params.
+  config.assets.digest = true
 
   # Use a different logger for distributed setups
   # config.logger = SyslogLogger.new
diff --git a/config/initializers/assets.rb b/config/initializers/assets.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..01ef3e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/assets.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file.
+
+# Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets.
+Rails.application.config.assets.version = '1.0'
+
+# Add additional assets to the asset load path
+# Rails.application.config.assets.paths << Emoji.images_path
+
+# Precompile additional assets.
+# application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS in app/assets folder are already added.
+# Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )