From 4967b35e00318d4f3ba3fdf9b7778eec387d64f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mohammad Typaldos Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 06:37:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Why should you use the asset pipeline? --- railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile index 9ea1aa9e01738..d1b33055f29cf 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ h3. What Is The Asset Pipeline? h4. Why Should I Use it? +Using the asset pipeline allows you to package javascript, CSS, or images with your Rails application, library, or plugin. It also makes it easy to create dynamic CSS with LESS and clean JavaScript with CoffeeScript to name a few of the popular preprocessors. The big difference is that they are now housed in app/assets, treating them like first-class citizens instead of just throughing them into their public folders. + h3. How to Use the Asset Pipeline h4. Asset Organization @@ -27,3 +29,5 @@ h4. Stacking Preproccessors h3. Packaging Assets with Your Plugin h3. More on Sprockets + +Sprockets is the engine that handles the asset pipeline in Rails 3.1 and above. Their offical website is avaialbe at "http://getsprockets.org/":http://getsprockets.org/ and the source code is "on github":https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets.