title: Rails public folder items not available in production
body: <p>I have a few items that are accessible just fine in development mode within the <code>/public</code> directory of my app: <code>favicon.ico</code>, <code>robots.txt</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I can view these in development at e.g. <code>localhost:3000/favicon.ico</code>.  However, when I push up to production, the assets are not visible at those paths.  As a result, I don't have a favicon icon and google can't find my robots.txt file, among other things.</p>
  
  <p>How can I fix this so that the <code>/public</code> directory is accessible through relevant urls?</p>