Best way to combine and minify JS / CSS on Heroku

Question

First of all, according to this answer, the :cache => true option on stylesheet_link_tag and javascript_include_tag doesn\'t work o

Answer 1

The project name says it all:

http://github.com/amasses/heroku_asset_packager

Answer 2

It's a different way to manage your CSS/Javascript but you may want to check out the Rails plugin shoebox.

Shoebox can do combining, minifying, and caching.

Answer 3

I'm using Jammit on Heroku. Works Great. You can locally build your assets and check in to heroku. use

jammit --force

the current version 0.5.1 has issues working on heroku but you can install the fixed version from git://github.com/documentcloud/jammit.git

If you are using Rails 3, specify the below in your bundler Gemfile:

gem "jammit", :git => "git://github.com/documentcloud/jammit.git"

For Rails 2.*

config.gem "jammit", :source => "git://github.com/documentcloud/jammit.git"

Good Luck.

Answer 4

I've found that adding a git pre–commit hook which compiles and packs assets, then adds them to the current commit comes in handy in this case.

Mine using Jammit looks something like this (in .git/hooks/pre-commit):

jammit
rake barista:brew
git add public/assets/*
git add public/javascripts/*

Like this all your assets will be packed for you and you don't have to worry anymore about it.

Answer 5

I haven't tried it on heroku yet, but Sprockets might be good for that. Also, in the past, I've had more luck with

:cache => 'all.css'
:cache => 'all.js'

instead of 'true'

Answer 6

GitHub has a good answer for this, and I'm sure you could modify Heroku's deployment scripts to integrate:

http://github.com/blog/551-optimizing-asset-bundling-and-serving-with-rails