Minit!
Minify JS and CSS in all environments except development and test for Ruby on Rails apps. (so far tested on Rails 3 but will be testing on Rails 2 in the coming days)
No frills, no configuration, opinionated packager. Use it, fork it or use something else.
This gem aims to fix two shortcomings in the main two asset packaging libraries, namely:
- Jammit requires Java to package CSS
- asset_packager requires a configuration file to specify every single CSS or JS file
It uses CSSMin and JSMin gems from rgrove. Thanks!
It will ignore files that don't exist. It will only include files once.
It's about 50 lines of code.
Usage
gem install minit
In your layout file add the following to <head>:
= include_stylesheets
= include_javascripts
Then ensure this folder structure to get the correct load order:
public/
javascripts/
lib/
jquery.js (for example)
plugins/
jquery_ui/ (for example)
jquery.menu.js (for example)
application.js (your own JS for example)
stylesheets/
reset.css
default.css
application.css
lib/
*
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Status / Todo
First release
This was hacked together one afternoon as I was fed up seeing the error message that Jammit couldn't compress because Java wasn't installed on our server. I wanted to see if it was easy enough to put together a simpler solution.
Feel free to report bugs in Issues.
Development
Minit uses MiniSpec, FakeFS, Watchr, RVM.