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I've been transitioning an app to Rails 3.1 (and now on to 3.2) and watched the Railscast on the asset pipeline . I moved all of my third-party jquery plugin files to the /vendor/assets/javascripts/ directory. In my /app/assets/javascripts/application.js I have the following: //= require jquery //= require jquery_ujs //= require_tree . //= require_self I realized the require_tree . call only loads the tree for the /app/assets/javascripts/ directory. (Is that correct?) What's the best way to include all the "vendor" javascripts? (I'm not worried about ordering at this point.) Of course I could

I'm sharing a configuration yml file client side, that I need to also load on the server side, I've placed it inside app/assets/javascripts/configuration.yml I can use #{asset_path 'configuration.yml'} inside a view to get the path, but I can't inside a controller. I could access directly using "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/javascripts/configuration.yml" but when deploying the filename gets the digest string appended. How can I get the same path from a controller? ActionController::Base.helpers.asset_path("configuration.yml") Might also be good to put configuration.yml in a different folder to

I wish to precompile all the CSS and JS files in my project's app/assets folder. I do NOT want to precompile everything in vendor/assets or lib/assets, only the dependencies of my files as needed. I tried the following wildcard setting, but it incorrectly precompiles everything. This results in lots of extra work and even causes a compilation failure when using bootstrap-sass. config.assets.precompile += ['*.js', '*.css'] What is my best bet to only process my files in app/assets ? Thanks! techpeace config.assets.precompile = ['*.js', '*.css'] That will compile any JavaScript or CSS in your