# Ansible playbook gulp dist/production assets not moving to staging environment

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/ansible-playbook-gulp-dist-production-assets-not-moving-to-staging-environment/3832
**Category:** bedrock
**Tags:** deploys
**Created:** 2015-05-20T05:15:15Z
**Posts:** 2

## Post 1 by @connormfreeman — 2015-05-20T05:15:15Z

I’ve got a `stage.example.com` website that is deploying just fine with `bedrock-ansible`, all the content appears correctly except that the `web/app/themes/sage/dist` folder doesn’t exist so none of the styles, scripts, or images work. I just get a 404 error.

The obvious answer seems to be that the `dist` directory is ignored so it won’t be pushed to the github repository, but I don’t want to remove this from `.gitignore` so what am I missing? Why won’t my `gulp --production` assets deploy to my staging environment?

Only relatable topic I could find is [3806](https://discourse.roots.io/t/gulp-not-working-after-gulp-production/3806)

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## Post 2 by @connormfreeman — 2015-05-20T16:33:22Z

I solved my own problem, gulp wasn’t being run on the Ansible host during deploy. While taking a look at the `roots-example-project` I found this in the `ansible/group_vars/production` file:

```
- path: "{{ project.local_path }}/web/app/themes/sage"
  cmd: npm install
- path: "{{ project.local_path }}/web/app/themes/sage"
  cmd: bower install
- path: "{{ project.local_path }}/web/app/themes/sage"
  cmd: gulp --production

project_local_files:
- name: compiled theme assets
  src: "{{ project.local_path }}/web/app/themes/sage/dist"
  dest: web/app/themes/sage
```

So I simply added these lines to my `ansible/group_vars/staging` and presto! Worked like a charm. I’m going to submit a pull request.