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The asset pipeline has been a game changer for a number of years in the Ruby on Rails community. This article & video is an overview of what the asset pipeline is, how it's used, and the benefits of such a tool.

What is the asset pipeline?

The Ruby on Rails documentation does a great job explaining the "what".

"The asset pipeline provides a framework to concatenate and minify or compress JavaScript and CSS assets. It also adds the ability to write these assets in other languages and pre-processors such as CoffeeScript, Sass, and ERB. It allows assets in your application to be automatically combined with assets from other gems."

Main Features

A generalized perk of using the Asset Pipeline is for performance and speed. Among those generalized gains we get the following:

• File concatenation - serving fewer files means fewer requests your browser has to make.

• SHA256 fingerprint - Cache files automatically with fingerprints. Update only the files that need to be.

• Minification / Compression - Minification means smaller file sizes and less "bytes" to serve per request.

Continue reading: https://web-crunch.com/understanding-asset-pipeline-ruby-on-rails

Note: Right around 20:08 I try and require "log.js". It turns out you don't even need to require it thanks to the "require_tree . " declaration below it in the same file. I also spelled "require" wrong.🤦🏼‍♂️ I just wanted to clear that up!

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