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diff --git a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md index 618896d458..5ac3586889 100644 --- a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md +++ b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ What is the Asset Pipeline? The asset pipeline provides a framework to concatenate and minify or compress JavaScript and CSS assets. It also adds the ability to write these assets in -other languages and pre-processors such as CoffeeScript, Sass and ERB. +other languages and pre-processors such as CoffeeScript, Sass, and ERB. It allows assets in your application to be automatically combined with assets from other gems. @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Pipeline assets can be placed inside an application in one of three locations: `app/assets`, `lib/assets` or `vendor/assets`. * `app/assets` is for assets that are owned by the application, such as custom -images, JavaScript files or stylesheets. +images, JavaScript files, or stylesheets. * `lib/assets` is for your own libraries' code that doesn't really fit into the scope of the application or those libraries which are shared across applications. @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ Sprockets uses manifest files to determine which assets to include and serve. These manifest files contain _directives_ - instructions that tell Sprockets which files to require in order to build a single CSS or JavaScript file. With these directives, Sprockets loads the files specified, processes them if -necessary, concatenates them into one single file and then compresses them +necessary, concatenates them into one single file, and then compresses them (based on value of `Rails.application.config.assets.js_compressor`). By serving one file rather than many, the load time of pages can be greatly reduced because the browser makes fewer requests. Compression also reduces file size, enabling @@ -728,8 +728,8 @@ Rails.application.config.assets.precompile += %w( admin.js admin.css ) NOTE. Always specify an expected compiled filename that ends with `.js` or `.css`, even if you want to add Sass or CoffeeScript files to the precompile array. -The task also generates a `.sprockets-manifest-md5hash.json` (where `md5hash` is -an MD5 hash) that contains a list with all your assets and their respective +The task also generates a `.sprockets-manifest-randomhex.json` (where `randomhex` is +a 16-byte random hex string) that contains a list with all your assets and their respective fingerprints. This is used by the Rails helper methods to avoid handing the mapping requests back to Sprockets. A typical manifest file looks like: @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ signals all caches between your server and the client browser that this content number of requests for this asset from your server; the asset has a good chance of being in the local browser cache or some intermediate cache. -This mode uses more memory, performs more poorly than the default and is not +This mode uses more memory, performs more poorly than the default, and is not recommended. If you are deploying a production application to a system without any @@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ config.action_controller.asset_host = ENV['CDN_HOST'] -Note: You would need to set `CDN_HOST` on your server to `mycdnsubdomain +NOTE: You would need to set `CDN_HOST` on your server to `mycdnsubdomain .fictional-cdn.com` for this to work. Once you have configured your server and your CDN when you serve a webpage that |