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file (if any) at the precise location of the `require_self` call.
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instead of these Sprockets directives. When using Sprockets directives, Sass files exist within
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and `admin.js` manifest could contain the JS and CSS files that are used for the
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individual files and they are compiled in the order specified. For example, you
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CoffeeScript file and a SCSS file are generated in place of a regular JavaScript
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and CSS file. The example used before was a controller called "projects", which
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generated an `app/assets/javascripts/projects.js.coffee` and an
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`app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss` file.
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requested they are processed by the processors provided by the `coffee-script`
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and `sass` gems and then sent back to the browser as JavaScript and CSS
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respectively. When asset pipelining is enabled, these files are preprocessed and
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placed in the `public/assets` directory for serving by either the Rails app or
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web server.
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Additional layers of preprocessing can be requested by adding other extensions,
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where each extension is processed in a right-to-left manner. These should be
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used in the order the processing should be applied. For example, a stylesheet
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called `app/assets/stylesheets/projects.css.scss.erb` is first processed as ERB,
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then SCSS, and finally served as CSS. The same applies to a JavaScript file -
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`app/assets/javascripts/projects.js.coffee.erb` is processed as ERB, then
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CoffeeScript, and served as JavaScript.
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Keep in mind the order of these preprocessors is important. For example, if
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you called your JavaScript file `app/assets/javascripts/projects.js.erb.coffee`
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then it would be processed with the CoffeeScript interpreter first, which
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specified in the manifest file.
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This manifest `app/assets/javascripts/application.js`:
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//= require core
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//= require projects
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//= require tickets
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would generate this HTML:
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<script src="/assets/core.js?body=1"></script>
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<script src="/assets/projects.js?body=1"></script>
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<script src="/assets/tickets.js?body=1"></script>
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runtime. To disable this behavior you can set:
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```ruby
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config.assets.raise_runtime_errors = false
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|
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in your application are included in the `config.assets.precompile` list.
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If `config.assets.digest` is also true, the asset pipeline will require that
|
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all requests for assets include digests.
|
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|
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|
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include:
|
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```ruby
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config.assets.digest = false
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```
|
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|
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|
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When this option is true, digests will be generated for asset URLs.
|
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|
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|
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### Turning Debugging Off
|
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You can turn off debug mode by updating `config/environments/development.rb` to
|
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include:
|
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```ruby
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config.assets.debug = false
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```
|
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|
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|
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When debug mode is off, Sprockets concatenates and runs the necessary
|
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|
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preprocessors on all files. With debug mode turned off the manifest above would
|
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|
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generate instead:
|
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|
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```html
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<script src="/assets/application.js"></script>
|
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|
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|
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|
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Assets are compiled and cached on the first request after the server is started.
|
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|
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Sprockets sets a `must-revalidate` Cache-Control HTTP header to reduce request
|
618
|
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overhead on subsequent requests - on these the browser gets a 304 (Not Modified)
|
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|
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response.
|
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|
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If any of the files in the manifest have changed between requests, the server
|
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|
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responds with a new compiled file.
|
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|
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|
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Debug mode can also be enabled in Rails helper methods:
|
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|
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|
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|
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```erb
|
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|
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<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", debug: true %>
|
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|
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<%= javascript_include_tag "application", debug: true %>
|
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|
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```
|
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|
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|
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The `:debug` option is redundant if debug mode is already on.
|
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|
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|
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|
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You can also enable compression in development mode as a sanity check, and
|
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|
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disable it on-demand as required for debugging.
|
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|
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|
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|
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In Production
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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In the production environment Sprockets uses the fingerprinting scheme outlined
|
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|
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above. By default Rails assumes assets have been precompiled and will be
|
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|
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served as static assets by your web server.
|
642
|
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|
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|
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During the precompilation phase an MD5 is generated from the contents of the
|
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|
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compiled files, and inserted into the filenames as they are written to disc.
|
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|
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These fingerprinted names are used by the Rails helpers in place of the manifest
|
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|
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name.
|
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|
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|
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|
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For example this:
|
649
|
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|
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|
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```erb
|
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|
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<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
|
652
|
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<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %>
|
653
|
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```
|
654
|
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|
655
|
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generates something like this:
|
656
|
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|
657
|
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```html
|
658
|
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<script src="/assets/application-908e25f4bf641868d8683022a5b62f54.js"></script>
|
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|
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<link href="/assets/application-4dd5b109ee3439da54f5bdfd78a80473.css" media="screen"
|
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|
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rel="stylesheet" />
|
661
|
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```
|
662
|
-
|
663
|
-
Note: with the Asset Pipeline the :cache and :concat options aren't used
|
664
|
-
anymore, delete these options from the `javascript_include_tag` and
|
665
|
-
`stylesheet_link_tag`.
|
666
|
-
|
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|
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The fingerprinting behavior is controlled by the `config.assets.digest`
|
668
|
-
initialization option (which defaults to `true` for production and `false` for
|
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|
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everything else).
|
670
|
-
|
671
|
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NOTE: Under normal circumstances the default `config.assets.digest` option
|
672
|
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should not be changed. If there are no digests in the filenames, and far-future
|
673
|
-
headers are set, remote clients will never know to refetch the files when their
|
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|
-
content changes.
|
675
|
-
|
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|
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### Precompiling Assets
|
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|
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|
678
|
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Rails comes bundled with a rake task to compile the asset manifests and other
|
679
|
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files in the pipeline.
|
680
|
-
|
681
|
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Compiled assets are written to the location specified in `config.assets.prefix`.
|
682
|
-
By default, this is the `/assets` directory.
|
683
|
-
|
684
|
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You can call this task on the server during deployment to create compiled
|
685
|
-
versions of your assets directly on the server. See the next section for
|
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|
-
information on compiling locally.
|
687
|
-
|
688
|
-
The rake task is:
|
689
|
-
|
690
|
-
```bash
|
691
|
-
$ RAILS_ENV=production bin/rake assets:precompile
|
692
|
-
```
|
693
|
-
|
694
|
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Capistrano (v2.15.1 and above) includes a recipe to handle this in deployment.
|
695
|
-
Add the following line to `Capfile`:
|
696
|
-
|
697
|
-
```ruby
|
698
|
-
load 'deploy/assets'
|
699
|
-
```
|
700
|
-
|
701
|
-
This links the folder specified in `config.assets.prefix` to `shared/assets`.
|
702
|
-
If you already use this shared folder you'll need to write your own deployment
|
703
|
-
task.
|
704
|
-
|
705
|
-
It is important that this folder is shared between deployments so that remotely
|
706
|
-
cached pages referencing the old compiled assets still work for the life of
|
707
|
-
the cached page.
|
708
|
-
|
709
|
-
The default matcher for compiling files includes `application.js`,
|
710
|
-
`application.css` and all non-JS/CSS files (this will include all image assets
|
711
|
-
automatically) from `app/assets` folders including your gems:
|
712
|
-
|
713
|
-
```ruby
|
714
|
-
[ Proc.new { |filename, path| path =~ /app\/assets/ && !%w(.js .css).include?(File.extname(filename)) },
|
715
|
-
/application.(css|js)$/ ]
|
716
|
-
```
|
717
|
-
|
718
|
-
NOTE: The matcher (and other members of the precompile array; see below) is
|
719
|
-
applied to final compiled file names. This means anything that compiles to
|
720
|
-
JS/CSS is excluded, as well as raw JS/CSS files; for example, `.coffee` and
|
721
|
-
`.scss` files are **not** automatically included as they compile to JS/CSS.
|
722
|
-
|
723
|
-
If you have other manifests or individual stylesheets and JavaScript files to
|
724
|
-
include, you can add them to the `precompile` array in `config/initializers/assets.rb`:
|
725
|
-
|
726
|
-
```ruby
|
727
|
-
Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += ['admin.js', 'admin.css', 'swfObject.js']
|
728
|
-
```
|
729
|
-
|
730
|
-
NOTE. Always specify an expected compiled filename that ends with .js or .css,
|
731
|
-
even if you want to add Sass or CoffeeScript files to the precompile array.
|
732
|
-
|
733
|
-
The rake task also generates a `manifest-md5hash.json` that contains a list with
|
734
|
-
all your assets and their respective fingerprints. This is used by the Rails
|
735
|
-
helper methods to avoid handing the mapping requests back to Sprockets. A
|
736
|
-
typical manifest file looks like:
|
737
|
-
|
738
|
-
```ruby
|
739
|
-
{"files":{"application-723d1be6cc741a3aabb1cec24276d681.js":{"logical_path":"application.js","mtime":"2013-07-26T22:55:03-07:00","size":302506,
|
740
|
-
"digest":"723d1be6cc741a3aabb1cec24276d681"},"application-12b3c7dd74d2e9df37e7cbb1efa76a6d.css":{"logical_path":"application.css","mtime":"2013-07-26T22:54:54-07:00","size":1560,
|
741
|
-
"digest":"12b3c7dd74d2e9df37e7cbb1efa76a6d"},"application-1c5752789588ac18d7e1a50b1f0fd4c2.css":{"logical_path":"application.css","mtime":"2013-07-26T22:56:17-07:00","size":1591,
|
742
|
-
"digest":"1c5752789588ac18d7e1a50b1f0fd4c2"},"favicon-a9c641bf2b81f0476e876f7c5e375969.ico":{"logical_path":"favicon.ico","mtime":"2013-07-26T23:00:10-07:00","size":1406,
|
743
|
-
"digest":"a9c641bf2b81f0476e876f7c5e375969"},"my_image-231a680f23887d9dd70710ea5efd3c62.png":{"logical_path":"my_image.png","mtime":"2013-07-26T23:00:27-07:00","size":6646,
|
744
|
-
"digest":"231a680f23887d9dd70710ea5efd3c62"}},"assets":{"application.js":
|
745
|
-
"application-723d1be6cc741a3aabb1cec24276d681.js","application.css":
|
746
|
-
"application-1c5752789588ac18d7e1a50b1f0fd4c2.css",
|
747
|
-
"favicon.ico":"favicona9c641bf2b81f0476e876f7c5e375969.ico","my_image.png":
|
748
|
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"my_image-231a680f23887d9dd70710ea5efd3c62.png"}}
|
749
|
-
```
|
750
|
-
|
751
|
-
The default location for the manifest is the root of the location specified in
|
752
|
-
`config.assets.prefix` ('/assets' by default).
|
753
|
-
|
754
|
-
NOTE: If there are missing precompiled files in production you will get an
|
755
|
-
`Sprockets::Helpers::RailsHelper::AssetPaths::AssetNotPrecompiledError`
|
756
|
-
exception indicating the name of the missing file(s).
|
757
|
-
|
758
|
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#### Far-future Expires Header
|
759
|
-
|
760
|
-
Precompiled assets exist on the file system and are served directly by your web
|
761
|
-
server. They do not have far-future headers by default, so to get the benefit of
|
762
|
-
fingerprinting you'll have to update your server configuration to add those
|
763
|
-
headers.
|
764
|
-
|
765
|
-
For Apache:
|
766
|
-
|
767
|
-
```apache
|
768
|
-
# The Expires* directives requires the Apache module
|
769
|
-
# `mod_expires` to be enabled.
|
770
|
-
<Location /assets/>
|
771
|
-
# Use of ETag is discouraged when Last-Modified is present
|
772
|
-
Header unset ETag
|
773
|
-
FileETag None
|
774
|
-
# RFC says only cache for 1 year
|
775
|
-
ExpiresActive On
|
776
|
-
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"
|
777
|
-
</Location>
|
778
|
-
```
|
779
|
-
|
780
|
-
For NGINX:
|
781
|
-
|
782
|
-
```nginx
|
783
|
-
location ~ ^/assets/ {
|
784
|
-
expires 1y;
|
785
|
-
add_header Cache-Control public;
|
786
|
-
|
787
|
-
add_header ETag "";
|
788
|
-
break;
|
789
|
-
}
|
790
|
-
```
|
791
|
-
|
792
|
-
### Local Precompilation
|
793
|
-
|
794
|
-
There are several reasons why you might want to precompile your assets locally.
|
795
|
-
Among them are:
|
796
|
-
|
797
|
-
* You may not have write access to your production file system.
|
798
|
-
* You may be deploying to more than one server, and want to avoid
|
799
|
-
duplication of work.
|
800
|
-
* You may be doing frequent deploys that do not include asset changes.
|
801
|
-
|
802
|
-
Local compilation allows you to commit the compiled files into source control,
|
803
|
-
and deploy as normal.
|
804
|
-
|
805
|
-
There are three caveats:
|
806
|
-
|
807
|
-
* You must not run the Capistrano deployment task that precompiles assets.
|
808
|
-
* You must ensure any necessary compressors or minifiers are
|
809
|
-
available on your development system.
|
810
|
-
* You must change the following application configuration setting:
|
811
|
-
|
812
|
-
In `config/environments/development.rb`, place the following line:
|
813
|
-
|
814
|
-
```ruby
|
815
|
-
config.assets.prefix = "/dev-assets"
|
816
|
-
```
|
817
|
-
|
818
|
-
The `prefix` change makes Sprockets use a different URL for serving assets in
|
819
|
-
development mode, and pass all requests to Sprockets. The prefix is still set to
|
820
|
-
`/assets` in the production environment. Without this change, the application
|
821
|
-
would serve the precompiled assets from `/assets` in development, and you would
|
822
|
-
not see any local changes until you compile assets again.
|
823
|
-
|
824
|
-
In practice, this will allow you to precompile locally, have those files in your
|
825
|
-
working tree, and commit those files to source control when needed. Development
|
826
|
-
mode will work as expected.
|
827
|
-
|
828
|
-
### Live Compilation
|
829
|
-
|
830
|
-
In some circumstances you may wish to use live compilation. In this mode all
|
831
|
-
requests for assets in the pipeline are handled by Sprockets directly.
|
832
|
-
|
833
|
-
To enable this option set:
|
834
|
-
|
835
|
-
```ruby
|
836
|
-
config.assets.compile = true
|
837
|
-
```
|
838
|
-
|
839
|
-
On the first request the assets are compiled and cached as outlined in
|
840
|
-
development above, and the manifest names used in the helpers are altered to
|
841
|
-
include the MD5 hash.
|
842
|
-
|
843
|
-
Sprockets also sets the `Cache-Control` HTTP header to `max-age=31536000`. This
|
844
|
-
signals all caches between your server and the client browser that this content
|
845
|
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(the file served) can be cached for 1 year. The effect of this is to reduce the
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number of requests for this asset from your server; the asset has a good chance
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of being in the local browser cache or some intermediate cache.
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This mode uses more memory, performs more poorly than the default and is not
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recommended.
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|
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If you are deploying a production application to a system without any
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|
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pre-existing JavaScript runtimes, you may want to add one to your Gemfile:
|
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|
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|
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|
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```ruby
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group :production do
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|
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gem 'therubyracer'
|
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|
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end
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|
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```
|
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|
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|
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### CDNs
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|
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|
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|
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CDN stands for [Content Delivery
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|
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Network](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network), they are
|
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|
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primarily designed to cache assets all over the world so that when a browser
|
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|
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requests the asset, a cached copy will be geographically close to that browser.
|
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|
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If you are serving assets directly from your Rails server in production, the
|
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|
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best practice is to use a CDN in front of your application.
|
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|
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|
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|
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A common pattern for using a CDN is to set your production application as the
|
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|
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"origin" server. This means when a browser requests an asset from the CDN and
|
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|
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there is a cache miss, it will grab the file from your server on the fly and
|
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|
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then cache it. For example if you are running a Rails application on
|
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|
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`example.com` and have a CDN configured at `mycdnsubdomain.fictional-cdn.com`,
|
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|
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then when a request is made to `mycdnsubdomain.fictional-
|
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|
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cdn.com/assets/smile.png`, the CDN will query your server once at
|
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|
-
`example.com/assets/smile.png` and cache the request. The next request to the
|
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|
-
CDN that comes in to the same URL will hit the cached copy. When the CDN can
|
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|
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serve an asset directly the request never touches your Rails server. Since the
|
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|
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assets from a CDN are geographically closer to the browser, the request is
|
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|
-
faster, and since your server doesn't need to spend time serving assets, it can
|
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|
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focus on serving application code as fast as possible.
|
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|
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|
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|
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#### Set up a CDN to Serve Static Assets
|
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|
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|
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|
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To set up your CDN you have to have your application running in production on
|
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|
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the internet at a publically available URL, for example `example.com`. Next
|
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|
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you'll need to sign up for a CDN service from a cloud hosting provider. When you
|
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|
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do this you need to configure the "origin" of the CDN to point back at your
|
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|
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website `example.com`, check your provider for documentation on configuring the
|
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|
-
origin server.
|
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|
-
|
893
|
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The CDN you provisioned should give you a custom subdomain for your application
|
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|
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such as `mycdnsubdomain.fictional-cdn.com` (note fictional-cdn.com is not a
|
895
|
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valid CDN provider at the time of this writing). Now that you have configured
|
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|
-
your CDN server, you need to tell browsers to use your CDN to grab assets
|
897
|
-
instead of your Rails server directly. You can do this by configuring Rails to
|
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|
-
set your CDN as the asset host instead of using a relative path. To set your
|
899
|
-
asset host in Rails, you need to set `config.action_controller.asset_host` in
|
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|
-
`config/production.rb`:
|
901
|
-
|
902
|
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```ruby
|
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|
-
config.action_controller.asset_host = 'mycdnsubdomain.fictional-cdn.com'
|
904
|
-
```
|
905
|
-
|
906
|
-
NOTE: You only need to provide the "host", this is the subdomain and root
|
907
|
-
domain, you do not need to specify a protocol or "scheme" such as `http://` or
|
908
|
-
`https://`. When a web page is requested, the protocol in the link to your asset
|
909
|
-
that is generated will match how the webpage is accessed by default.
|
910
|
-
|
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|
-
You can also set this value through an [environment
|
912
|
-
variable](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable) to make running a
|
913
|
-
staging copy of your site easier:
|
914
|
-
|
915
|
-
```
|
916
|
-
config.action_controller.asset_host = ENV['CDN_HOST']
|
917
|
-
```
|
918
|
-
|
919
|
-
|
920
|
-
|
921
|
-
Note: You would need to set `CDN_HOST` on your server to `mycdnsubdomain
|
922
|
-
.fictional-cdn.com` for this to work.
|
923
|
-
|
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|
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Once you have configured your server and your CDN when you serve a webpage that
|
925
|
-
has an asset:
|
926
|
-
|
927
|
-
```erb
|
928
|
-
<%= asset_path('smile.png') %>
|
929
|
-
```
|
930
|
-
|
931
|
-
Instead of returning a path such as `/assets/smile.png` (digests are left out
|
932
|
-
for readability). The URL generated will have the full path to your CDN.
|
933
|
-
|
934
|
-
```
|
935
|
-
http://mycdnsubdomain.fictional-cdn.com/assets/smile.png
|
936
|
-
```
|
937
|
-
|
938
|
-
If the CDN has a copy of `smile.png` it will serve it to the browser and your
|
939
|
-
server doesn't even know it was requested. If the CDN does not have a copy it
|
940
|
-
will try to find it a the "origin" `example.com/assets/smile.png` and then store
|
941
|
-
it for future use.
|
942
|
-
|
943
|
-
If you want to serve only some assets from your CDN, you can use custom `:host`
|
944
|
-
option your asset helper, which overwrites value set in
|
945
|
-
`config.action_controller.asset_host`.
|
946
|
-
|
947
|
-
```erb
|
948
|
-
<%= asset_path 'image.png', host: 'mycdnsubdomain.fictional-cdn.com' %>
|
949
|
-
```
|
950
|
-
|
951
|
-
#### Customize CDN Caching Behavior
|
952
|
-
|
953
|
-
A CDN works by caching content. If the CDN has stale or bad content, then it is
|
954
|
-
hurting rather than helping your application. The purpose of this section is to
|
955
|
-
describe general caching behavior of most CDNs, your specific provider may
|
956
|
-
behave slightly differently.
|
957
|
-
|
958
|
-
##### CDN Request Caching
|
959
|
-
|
960
|
-
While a CDN is described as being good for caching assets, in reality caches the
|
961
|
-
entire request. This includes the body of the asset as well as any headers. The
|
962
|
-
most important one being `Cache-Control` which tells the CDN (and web browsers)
|
963
|
-
how to cache contents. This means that if someone requests an asset that does
|
964
|
-
not exist `/assets/i-dont-exist.png` and your Rails application returns a 404,
|
965
|
-
then your CDN will likely cache the 404 page if a valid `Cache-Control` header
|
966
|
-
is present.
|
967
|
-
|
968
|
-
##### CDN Header Debugging
|
969
|
-
|
970
|
-
One way to check the headers are cached properly in your CDN is by using [curl](
|
971
|
-
http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=curl+-I+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com). You
|
972
|
-
can request the headers from both your server and your CDN to verify they are
|
973
|
-
the same:
|
974
|
-
|
975
|
-
```
|
976
|
-
$ curl -I http://www.example/assets/application-
|
977
|
-
d0e099e021c95eb0de3615fd1d8c4d83.css
|
978
|
-
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
|
979
|
-
Server: Cowboy
|
980
|
-
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:27:50 GMT
|
981
|
-
Connection: keep-alive
|
982
|
-
Last-Modified: Thu, 08 May 2014 01:24:14 GMT
|
983
|
-
Content-Type: text/css
|
984
|
-
Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
|
985
|
-
Content-Length: 126560
|
986
|
-
Via: 1.1 vegur
|
987
|
-
```
|
988
|
-
|
989
|
-
Versus the CDN copy.
|
990
|
-
|
991
|
-
```
|
992
|
-
$ curl -I http://mycdnsubdomain.fictional-cdn.com/application-
|
993
|
-
d0e099e021c95eb0de3615fd1d8c4d83.css
|
994
|
-
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Cowboy Last-
|
995
|
-
Modified: Thu, 08 May 2014 01:24:14 GMT Content-Type: text/css
|
996
|
-
Cache-Control:
|
997
|
-
public, max-age=2592000
|
998
|
-
Via: 1.1 vegur
|
999
|
-
Content-Length: 126560
|
1000
|
-
Accept-Ranges:
|
1001
|
-
bytes
|
1002
|
-
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:28:45 GMT
|
1003
|
-
Via: 1.1 varnish
|
1004
|
-
Age: 885814
|
1005
|
-
Connection: keep-alive
|
1006
|
-
X-Served-By: cache-dfw1828-DFW
|
1007
|
-
X-Cache: HIT
|
1008
|
-
X-Cache-Hits:
|
1009
|
-
68
|
1010
|
-
X-Timer: S1408912125.211638212,VS0,VE0
|
1011
|
-
```
|
1012
|
-
|
1013
|
-
Check your CDN documentation for any additional information they may provide
|
1014
|
-
such as `X-Cache` or for any additional headers they may add.
|
1015
|
-
|
1016
|
-
##### CDNs and the Cache-Control Header
|
1017
|
-
|
1018
|
-
The [cache control
|
1019
|
-
header](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9) is a W3C
|
1020
|
-
specification that describes how a request can be cached. When no CDN is used, a
|
1021
|
-
browser will use this information to cache contents. This is very helpful for
|
1022
|
-
assets that are not modified so that a browser does not need to re-download a
|
1023
|
-
website's CSS or javascript on every request. Generally we want our Rails server
|
1024
|
-
to tell our CDN (and browser) that the asset is "public", that means any cache
|
1025
|
-
can store the request. Also we commonly want to set `max-age` which is how long
|
1026
|
-
the cache will store the object before invalidating the cache. The `max-age`
|
1027
|
-
value is set to seconds with a maximum possible value of `31536000` which is one
|
1028
|
-
year. You can do this in your rails application by setting
|
1029
|
-
|
1030
|
-
```
|
1031
|
-
config.static_cache_control = "public, max-age=31536000"
|
1032
|
-
```
|
1033
|
-
|
1034
|
-
Now when your application serves an asset in production, the CDN will store the
|
1035
|
-
asset for up to a year. Since most CDNs also cache headers of the request, this
|
1036
|
-
`Cache-Control` will be passed along to all future browsers seeking this asset,
|
1037
|
-
the browser then knows that it can store this asset for a very long time before
|
1038
|
-
needing to re-request it.
|
1039
|
-
|
1040
|
-
##### CDNs and URL based Cache Invalidation
|
1041
|
-
|
1042
|
-
Most CDNs will cache contents of an asset based on the complete URL. This means
|
1043
|
-
that a request to
|
1044
|
-
|
1045
|
-
```
|
1046
|
-
http://mycdnsubdomain.fictional-cdn.com/assets/smile-123.png
|
1047
|
-
```
|
1048
|
-
|
1049
|
-
Will be a completely different cache from
|
1050
|
-
|
1051
|
-
```
|
1052
|
-
http://mycdnsubdomain.fictional-cdn.com/assets/smile.png
|
1053
|
-
```
|
1054
|
-
|
1055
|
-
If you want to set far future `max-age` in your `Cache-Control` (and you do),
|
1056
|
-
then make sure when you change your assets that your cache is invalidated. For
|
1057
|
-
example when changing the smiley face in an image from yellow to blue, you want
|
1058
|
-
all visitors of your site to get the new blue face. When using a CDN with the
|
1059
|
-
Rails asset pipeline `config.assets.digest` is set to true by default so that
|
1060
|
-
each asset will have a different file name when it is changed. This way you
|
1061
|
-
don't have to ever manually invalidate any items in your cache. By using a
|
1062
|
-
different unique asset name instead, your users get the latest asset.
|
1063
|
-
|
1064
|
-
Customizing the Pipeline
|
1065
|
-
------------------------
|
1066
|
-
|
1067
|
-
### CSS Compression
|
1068
|
-
|
1069
|
-
One of the options for compressing CSS is YUI. The [YUI CSS
|
1070
|
-
compressor](http://yui.github.io/yuicompressor/css.html) provides
|
1071
|
-
minification.
|
1072
|
-
|
1073
|
-
The following line enables YUI compression, and requires the `yui-compressor`
|
1074
|
-
gem.
|
1075
|
-
|
1076
|
-
```ruby
|
1077
|
-
config.assets.css_compressor = :yui
|
1078
|
-
```
|
1079
|
-
The other option for compressing CSS if you have the sass-rails gem installed is
|
1080
|
-
|
1081
|
-
```ruby
|
1082
|
-
config.assets.css_compressor = :sass
|
1083
|
-
```
|
1084
|
-
|
1085
|
-
### JavaScript Compression
|
1086
|
-
|
1087
|
-
Possible options for JavaScript compression are `:closure`, `:uglifier` and
|
1088
|
-
`:yui`. These require the use of the `closure-compiler`, `uglifier` or
|
1089
|
-
`yui-compressor` gems, respectively.
|
1090
|
-
|
1091
|
-
The default Gemfile includes [uglifier](https://github.com/lautis/uglifier).
|
1092
|
-
This gem wraps [UglifyJS](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS) (written for
|
1093
|
-
NodeJS) in Ruby. It compresses your code by removing white space and comments,
|
1094
|
-
shortening local variable names, and performing other micro-optimizations such
|
1095
|
-
as changing `if` and `else` statements to ternary operators where possible.
|
1096
|
-
|
1097
|
-
The following line invokes `uglifier` for JavaScript compression.
|
1098
|
-
|
1099
|
-
```ruby
|
1100
|
-
config.assets.js_compressor = :uglifier
|
1101
|
-
```
|
1102
|
-
|
1103
|
-
NOTE: You will need an [ExecJS](https://github.com/rails/execjs#readme)
|
1104
|
-
supported runtime in order to use `uglifier`. If you are using Mac OS X or
|
1105
|
-
Windows you have a JavaScript runtime installed in your operating system.
|
1106
|
-
|
1107
|
-
NOTE: The `config.assets.compress` initialization option is no longer used in
|
1108
|
-
Rails 4 to enable either CSS or JavaScript compression. Setting it will have no
|
1109
|
-
effect on the application. Instead, setting `config.assets.css_compressor` and
|
1110
|
-
`config.assets.js_compressor` will control compression of CSS and JavaScript
|
1111
|
-
assets.
|
1112
|
-
|
1113
|
-
### Using Your Own Compressor
|
1114
|
-
|
1115
|
-
The compressor config settings for CSS and JavaScript also take any object.
|
1116
|
-
This object must have a `compress` method that takes a string as the sole
|
1117
|
-
argument and it must return a string.
|
1118
|
-
|
1119
|
-
```ruby
|
1120
|
-
class Transformer
|
1121
|
-
def compress(string)
|
1122
|
-
do_something_returning_a_string(string)
|
1123
|
-
end
|
1124
|
-
end
|
1125
|
-
```
|
1126
|
-
|
1127
|
-
To enable this, pass a new object to the config option in `application.rb`:
|
1128
|
-
|
1129
|
-
```ruby
|
1130
|
-
config.assets.css_compressor = Transformer.new
|
1131
|
-
```
|
1132
|
-
|
1133
|
-
|
1134
|
-
### Changing the _assets_ Path
|
1135
|
-
|
1136
|
-
The public path that Sprockets uses by default is `/assets`.
|
1137
|
-
|
1138
|
-
This can be changed to something else:
|
1139
|
-
|
1140
|
-
```ruby
|
1141
|
-
config.assets.prefix = "/some_other_path"
|
1142
|
-
```
|
1143
|
-
|
1144
|
-
This is a handy option if you are updating an older project that didn't use the
|
1145
|
-
asset pipeline and already uses this path or you wish to use this path for
|
1146
|
-
a new resource.
|
1147
|
-
|
1148
|
-
### X-Sendfile Headers
|
1149
|
-
|
1150
|
-
The X-Sendfile header is a directive to the web server to ignore the response
|
1151
|
-
from the application, and instead serve a specified file from disk. This option
|
1152
|
-
is off by default, but can be enabled if your server supports it. When enabled,
|
1153
|
-
this passes responsibility for serving the file to the web server, which is
|
1154
|
-
faster. Have a look at [send_file](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/DataStreaming.html#method-i-send_file)
|
1155
|
-
on how to use this feature.
|
1156
|
-
|
1157
|
-
Apache and NGINX support this option, which can be enabled in
|
1158
|
-
`config/environments/production.rb`:
|
1159
|
-
|
1160
|
-
```ruby
|
1161
|
-
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for Apache
|
1162
|
-
# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for NGINX
|
1163
|
-
```
|
1164
|
-
|
1165
|
-
WARNING: If you are upgrading an existing application and intend to use this
|
1166
|
-
option, take care to paste this configuration option only into `production.rb`
|
1167
|
-
and any other environments you define with production behavior (not
|
1168
|
-
`application.rb`).
|
1169
|
-
|
1170
|
-
TIP: For further details have a look at the docs of your production web server:
|
1171
|
-
- [Apache](https://tn123.org/mod_xsendfile/)
|
1172
|
-
- [NGINX](http://wiki.nginx.org/XSendfile)
|
1173
|
-
|
1174
|
-
Assets Cache Store
|
1175
|
-
------------------
|
1176
|
-
|
1177
|
-
The default Rails cache store will be used by Sprockets to cache assets in
|
1178
|
-
development and production. This can be changed by setting
|
1179
|
-
`config.assets.cache_store`:
|
1180
|
-
|
1181
|
-
```ruby
|
1182
|
-
config.assets.cache_store = :memory_store
|
1183
|
-
```
|
1184
|
-
|
1185
|
-
The options accepted by the assets cache store are the same as the application's
|
1186
|
-
cache store.
|
1187
|
-
|
1188
|
-
```ruby
|
1189
|
-
config.assets.cache_store = :memory_store, { size: 32.megabytes }
|
1190
|
-
```
|
1191
|
-
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To disable the assets cache store:
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```ruby
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config.assets.configure do |env|
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env.cache = ActiveSupport::Cache.lookup_store(:null_store)
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end
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|
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```
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|
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|
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|
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Adding Assets to Your Gems
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1202
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1203
|
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Assets can also come from external sources in the form of gems.
|
1204
|
-
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1205
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A good example of this is the `jquery-rails` gem which comes with Rails as the
|
1206
|
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standard JavaScript library gem. This gem contains an engine class which
|
1207
|
-
inherits from `Rails::Engine`. By doing this, Rails is informed that the
|
1208
|
-
directory for this gem may contain assets and the `app/assets`, `lib/assets` and
|
1209
|
-
`vendor/assets` directories of this engine are added to the search path of
|
1210
|
-
Sprockets.
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1211
|
-
|
1212
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Making Your Library or Gem a Pre-Processor
|
1213
|
-
------------------------------------------
|
1214
|
-
|
1215
|
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As Sprockets uses [Tilt](https://github.com/rtomayko/tilt) as a generic
|
1216
|
-
interface to different templating engines, your gem should just implement the
|
1217
|
-
Tilt template protocol. Normally, you would subclass `Tilt::Template` and
|
1218
|
-
reimplement the `prepare` method, which initializes your template, and the
|
1219
|
-
`evaluate` method, which returns the processed source. The original source is
|
1220
|
-
stored in `data`. Have a look at
|
1221
|
-
[`Tilt::Template`](https://github.com/rtomayko/tilt/blob/master/lib/tilt/template.rb)
|
1222
|
-
sources to learn more.
|
1223
|
-
|
1224
|
-
```ruby
|
1225
|
-
module BangBang
|
1226
|
-
class Template < ::Tilt::Template
|
1227
|
-
def prepare
|
1228
|
-
# Do any initialization here
|
1229
|
-
end
|
1230
|
-
|
1231
|
-
# Adds a "!" to original template.
|
1232
|
-
def evaluate(scope, locals, &block)
|
1233
|
-
"#{data}!"
|
1234
|
-
end
|
1235
|
-
end
|
1236
|
-
end
|
1237
|
-
```
|
1238
|
-
|
1239
|
-
Now that you have a `Template` class, it's time to associate it with an
|
1240
|
-
extension for template files:
|
1241
|
-
|
1242
|
-
```ruby
|
1243
|
-
Sprockets.register_engine '.bang', BangBang::Template
|
1244
|
-
```
|
1245
|
-
|
1246
|
-
Upgrading from Old Versions of Rails
|
1247
|
-
------------------------------------
|
1248
|
-
|
1249
|
-
There are a few issues when upgrading from Rails 3.0 or Rails 2.x. The first is
|
1250
|
-
moving the files from `public/` to the new locations. See [Asset
|
1251
|
-
Organization](#asset-organization) above for guidance on the correct locations
|
1252
|
-
for different file types.
|
1253
|
-
|
1254
|
-
Next will be avoiding duplicate JavaScript files. Since jQuery is the default
|
1255
|
-
JavaScript library from Rails 3.1 onwards, you don't need to copy `jquery.js`
|
1256
|
-
into `app/assets` and it will be included automatically.
|
1257
|
-
|
1258
|
-
The third is updating the various environment files with the correct default
|
1259
|
-
options.
|
1260
|
-
|
1261
|
-
In `application.rb`:
|
1262
|
-
|
1263
|
-
```ruby
|
1264
|
-
# Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets
|
1265
|
-
config.assets.version = '1.0'
|
1266
|
-
|
1267
|
-
# Change the path that assets are served from config.assets.prefix = "/assets"
|
1268
|
-
```
|
1269
|
-
|
1270
|
-
In `development.rb`:
|
1271
|
-
|
1272
|
-
```ruby
|
1273
|
-
# Expands the lines which load the assets
|
1274
|
-
config.assets.debug = true
|
1275
|
-
```
|
1276
|
-
|
1277
|
-
And in `production.rb`:
|
1278
|
-
|
1279
|
-
```ruby
|
1280
|
-
# Choose the compressors to use (if any) config.assets.js_compressor =
|
1281
|
-
# :uglifier config.assets.css_compressor = :yui
|
1282
|
-
|
1283
|
-
# Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
|
1284
|
-
config.assets.compile = false
|
1285
|
-
|
1286
|
-
# Generate digests for assets URLs. This is planned for deprecation.
|
1287
|
-
config.assets.digest = true
|
1288
|
-
|
1289
|
-
# Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all
|
1290
|
-
# non-JS/CSS are already added) config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )
|
1291
|
-
```
|
1292
|
-
|
1293
|
-
Rails 4 no longer sets default config values for Sprockets in `test.rb`, so
|
1294
|
-
`test.rb` now requires Sprockets configuration. The old defaults in the test
|
1295
|
-
environment are: `config.assets.compile = true`, `config.assets.compress = false`,
|
1296
|
-
`config.assets.debug = false` and `config.assets.digest = false`.
|
1297
|
-
|
1298
|
-
The following should also be added to `Gemfile`:
|
1299
|
-
|
1300
|
-
```ruby
|
1301
|
-
gem 'sass-rails', "~> 3.2.3"
|
1302
|
-
gem 'coffee-rails', "~> 3.2.1"
|
1303
|
-
gem 'uglifier'
|
1304
|
-
```
|