diff --git a/config/initializers/assets.rb b/config/initializers/assets.rb
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+# 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
+# Add Yarn node_modules folder to the asset load path.
+Rails.application.config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join('node_modules')
+Rails.application.config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join('vendor/assets/fonts')
+
+# Precompile additional assets.
+# application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS in the app/assets
+# folder are already added.
+# Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += %w( admin.js admin.css )
+
+Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += ['announcement_refresh.js','effects.js','site_update.js']
+Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += ['local_jquery.js','tablesorter-theme.cafe.css']
+%w( announcements submissions configurations contests contest_management graders heartbeat 
+    login main messages problems report site sites sources tasks groups
+    test user_admin users ).each do |controller|
+  Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += ["#{controller}.js", "#{controller}.css"]
+end