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Circa

2009-04-30T13:29:39-07:00

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ObjectiveResource

2009-02-06T11:39:22-08:00

This mobile is very cool, I like it very much. Thank for your tips. Article Directory

Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

2009-11-19T12:30:47-08:00

What impact is there while the bundle:all is running? What about if a client requests it during generation?

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2008-08-24T12:36:01-07:00

Nice shirts, the design is very cool, I like them very much.

Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

2009-11-19T12:30:47-08:00

@jaknowlden: The choice was pretty simple — most of the functionality described above has been in the GitHub codebase for a very long time. It would have been a lot of work to move to a new asset bundling plugin without any benefits.

Popular Repos

2008-03-09T08:17:21-07:00

Is there a way to not only view the top 25 most popular repos but 26 up to 100? I want to see what else there is on GitHub.

Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

2009-11-19T12:30:47-08:00

Out of curiosity, could you comment on the use of existing open source asset bundling rails plugins that exist out there and why you chose not to use them. Especially those hosted on github ;)

Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

2009-11-19T12:30:47-08:00

@loe: Images referenced in stylesheets are relative to the stylesheet's location, not the page being served. So if you serve a CSS file off of `asset1.github.com`, all images will be downloaded from `asset1.github.com`. The image's cache and expiry has nothing to do with the CSS, only whatever headers the actual image sends. If you set a far-future expiry for an image, the image should remain cached for a very long time.

Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

2009-11-19T12:30:47-08:00

@kyle Are you saying that using url('/image/foo.jpg') (not run through image_path which would generate the query string and serve it off of an asset hostname) in a stylesheet that is served with a far future expires is ok? Will the image be re-downloaded if the asset id on the stylesheet is changed or will the browser still use the cached image set to expire in 30 years? I've been wanting to run all stylesheets through ERB before deploys to get the asset hosting benefits, but if it only helps me by using the asset hosts it might not be worth the work.

Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

2009-11-19T12:30:47-08:00

@chris: Given the way CSS works, the asset hosting stuff happens no matter if you use sass or not. Timestamped images to me aren't preferred since it would force users to re-download all the site's images (including layout images) every time we deploy. Images referenced in our CSS almost never change, and I'm happy to manually change them if we do change them.

Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

2009-11-19T12:30:47-08:00

FYI: if you guys used compass and sass for your stylesheets, the images referenced in your stylesheets would be timestamp invalidated and asset-host'd just like they are using rails helpers (just use image_url instead of url)

Multiple file gist improvements

2009-11-18T16:11:04-08:00

@jeffrafter: Yeah, we added that a while ago after someone's suggestion (maybe yours). @pocmo: Heh, we'll have to see about that.

Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

2009-11-19T12:30:47-08:00

try use <%= javascript_dev ['jquery-1.3.2', "//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"] %> instead of <%= javascript_dev ['jquery-1.3.2', "#{http_protocol}://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"] %>

Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails

2009-11-19T12:30:47-08:00

If you'd like to get a lot of these optimizations for free in your Rails project, check out the [Jammit](http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/ "Jammit") gem. This is a great post, Kyle. Thanks for going into such comprehensive detail.

Announcing GitHub:FI

2009-06-01T13:06:31-07:00

It does seem to be a great firewall. I wonder where I can buy this product. I couldn't even find it at Newegg.

Multiple file gist improvements

2009-11-18T16:11:04-08:00

woot

Multiple file gist improvements

2009-11-18T16:11:04-08:00

yeah, nice! I would like to also comment on gists like on commits. :)

Multiple file gist improvements

2009-11-18T16:11:04-08:00

Hey this is great! It looks like you also added the description to the window title (or did I miss when that happened because it makes the awesome bar more awesomer). Cheers!

Multiple file gist improvements

2009-11-18T16:11:04-08:00

yes!

GitHub Meetup SF: RubyConf Edition

2009-11-16T12:26:25-08:00

Cheers!