rake/sprocketstask

[sstephenson]

Add a Rake::SprocketsTask for easily generating bundles from a Rakefile.

[jwhitley]

Motion seconded. I was quite surprised to find that the precompiler stuff was part of Rails, and not part of Sprockets. My goal was to create a lightweight (either static-HTML or Sinatra-based) app shell exclusively for development and testing of a JS lib written in CoffeeScript, using Sprockets for the build system.

I ended up creating a stripped down Rails app in order to use Sprockets and the precompiler. Sadly, this turns out to be a lot slower (namely, rake assets:precompile) and cruftier (useless junk in the tree, rails/rails#3380) than I'd like. I'm probably going to bail on the Rails app skeleton shortly for those reasons.

I'll whip something up and kick out a pull request, as my other work tasks permit. Since I'm obviously motivated here, I'd welcome any thoughts you can share on other itches this tooling should scratch.

[outaTiME]

yup ... it will be great ...

[josh]

Happening in #256

[josh]

Yo, please checkout the 2.2 beta and try out the new rake task.