From 0fd52bb6c79f20b8dbd5c8afb774ef1dae155fc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Bigg Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:16:10 +1000 Subject: Added 'Configuring Assets' section to configuring guide --- railties/guides/source/configuring.textile | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'railties/guides/source/configuring.textile') diff --git a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile index 84b5fbc73b..ca11f757ff 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile @@ -116,8 +116,23 @@ WARNING: Threadsafe operation is incompatible with the normal workings of develo * +config.whiny_nils+ enables or disables warnings when a certain set of methods are invoked on +nil+ and it does not respond to them. Defaults to true in development and test environments. +h4. Configuring Assets + +Rails 3.1, by default, is set up to use the +sprockets+ gem to manage assets within an application. This gem concatenates and compresses assets in order to make serving them much less painful. + +* +config.assets.css_compressor+ defines the CSS compressor to use. Only supported value at the moment is +:yui+, which uses the +yui-compressor+ gem. + * +config.assets.enabled+ a flag that controls whether the asset pipeline is enabled. It is explicitly initialized in +config/application.rb+. +* +config.assets.js_compressor+ defines the JavaScript compressor to use. Possible values are +:closure+, +:uglifier+ and +:yui+ which require the use of the +closure-compiler+, +uglifier+ or +yui-compressor+ gems respectively. + +* +config.assets.paths+ contains the paths which are used to look for assets. Appending paths to this configuration option will cause those paths to be used in the search for assets. + +* +config.assets.precompile+ allows you to specify additional assets (other than +application.css+ and +application.js+) which are to be precompiled when +rake assets:precompile+ is run. + +* +config.assets.prefix+ defines the prefix where assets are served from. Defaults to +/assets+. + + h4. Configuring Generators Rails 3 allows you to alter what generators are used with the +config.generators+ method. This method takes a block: -- cgit v1.2.3