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authorJeremy Kemper <jeremykemper@gmail.com>2014-08-24 14:38:12 -0700
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Merge pull request #16616 from schneems/schneems/jeremy-comments
Address comments on Gzip implementation
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* Added an option to disable logging of CSRF failures.
([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/14280))
+* When the Rails server is set to serve static assets, gzip assets will now be
+ served if the client supports it and a pre-generated gzip file (.gz) is on disk.
+ By default the asset pipeline generates `.gz` files for all compressible assets.
+ Serving gzip files minimizes data transfer and speeds up asset requests. Always
+ [use a CDN](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html#cdns) if you are
+ serving assets from your Rails server in production.
+ ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/16466))
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