Compressing assets in Ruby on Rails 3

Question

I have following configurations in production.rb

 # Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
  config.serve_static_assets = false

  # Compress JavaScripts and CSS
  config.assets.compress = true

  # Choose the compressors to use
  config.assets.js_compressor  = :uglifier
  config.assets.css_compressor = :yui

  # Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
  config.assets.compile = true

  # Generate digests for assets URLs.
  config.assets.digest = true

But when the ruby on rails application on production server I get following error:

Error compiling CSS asset

LoadError: cannot load such file -- yui-compressor

on commenting line LoadError: cannot load such file -- yui-compressor,everything goes well.
All I need a compressor that gzip compress assets before sending to improve performance!
so,what is problem here or is there any other alternative?

Update:
Also javascript compression is not working,as yslow plugin for firefox also showing javascripts needs to be compressed.

Answer 1

Have you included the yui-compressor gem in your Gemfile? If not, then include it, run 'bundle install', and then Rails should be able to find it.

Answer 2

I found that the compression must be enabled on webserver to have effect.
All that is needed is to add following:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript

in <VirtualHost *:80></VirtualHost> directive for Apache(phusion passenger) for my case.