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| author | Vijay Dev <vijaydev.cse@gmail.com> | 2012-03-24 17:15:10 +0530 |
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| committer | Vijay Dev <vijaydev.cse@gmail.com> | 2012-03-24 17:15:10 +0530 |
| commit | 014498e1d74decd57d44d45c187fa4f4b968b811 (patch) | |
| tree | 948610d910d28fc976cdffffd533879a16b01557 /guides/source/engines.textile | |
| parent | 780ab582091cf06ded9540a5d4fef23086e9bac3 (diff) | |
| parent | 2fab826db055f7b59bb83b834d730d69c8c7b25e (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of github.com:lifo/docrails
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diff --git a/guides/source/engines.textile b/guides/source/engines.textile index 6ae9504c23..501d48eab8 100644 --- a/guides/source/engines.textile +++ b/guides/source/engines.textile @@ -723,6 +723,21 @@ You can also specify these assets as dependencies of other assets using the Asse */ </css> +h4. Separate Assets & Precompiling + +There are some situations where your engine's assets not required by the host application. For example, say that you've created +an admin functionality that only exists for your engine. In this case, the host application doesn't need to require +admin.css+ +or +admin.js+. Only the gem's admin layout needs these assets. It doesn't make sense for the host app to include +"blorg/admin.css"+ in it's stylesheets. In this situation, you should explicitly define these assets for precompilation. +This tells sprockets to add you engine assets when +rake assets:precompile+ is ran. + +You can define assets for precompilation in +engine.rb+ + +<ruby> +initializer do |app| + app.config.assets.precompile += %w(admin.css admin.js) +end +</ruby + For more information, read the "Asset Pipeline guide":http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html h4. Other gem dependencies |