Create a cache-busted file + regular one.

[eddanger]

It would be great if there was an option to generate both a regular asset and a cache-busted asset.

I'm using my site programatically and I need to know the location of particular assets beforehand.

I could set cachebust to none and be done with it, but I like cache bustin'.

[ixti]

Can you please explain in details what exactly do you want to achieve? If you want to have a map of "logical name" (e.g. app.css) to "digest path" (e.g. app-14758f1afd44c09b7992073ccf00b43d.css) then I think it's better to add a manifest.json file (core feature of Sprockets) that will contain desired map.

[eddanger]

Hi Aleksey,

I simply want to generate two files, one digest version (when cachebust is set to hard) and one regular non-digest version in a predictable location such as /assets

The non-digest assets will be used by an external site not compiled with Jekyll.

I've hacked my sites to create the non-digest assets by using the Liquid tag asset as the only thing in the file. This works for now, but would like a more permanent method to always generate non-digested assets along with digested ones.

[ixti]

After some thinking (OK it was 2 months of thinking, sorry) I tend to close this issue. I don't see this feature as part of the plugin core. To avoid kludges with empty file, you can add small one-liner into the site building pipeline (task):

find assets -type f | grep -v '\.gz$' | while read f; do cp $f $(echo $f | sed -r 's/-[a-f0-9]{32}(\.[^.]+)$/\1/'); done