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Moving forward with the Rails asset pipeline #rubyonrails #ruby #webdevelopment

Moving forward with the Rails asset pipeline From Yeti dev Guillermo Iguaran : One of the big changes with Rails 3.1 was the inclusion of the asset pipeline. With all the productivity benefits it brought, there’ve been some headaches. Here are some notes on how it’s improving and changing in Rails 4.0. Extraction to plugin In Rails 4.0, the asset pipeline has been extracted to a separate plugin, named sprockets-rails. This extraction has helped to the plugin to grow independently from Rails Core, and follow the Rails moves towards modularity. I’ve been leading the development of the new plugin since the initial extraction (which I also performed). Sprockets Since the sprockets-rails gem was extracted, we were able to start to support the latest versions of sprockets and we are working on keeping sprockets-rails updated with the latest features available in sprockets. We’ve...

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