I want Rails 3.1 to pick up more of my assets for precompilation. In particular, the default matcher for compiling files doesn't add .js
files from vendor/assets/javascripts
. I can just add the assets to the config.assets.precompile
list, but this seems annoying. I don't want to refer to them in the application.js
manifest, because I don't want them included in all pages.
In summary, any way to request that all .js
files found in vendor/assets/javascripts
get precompiled by rake assets:precompile
, but without having them included in all pages?
Best Answer
config.assets.precompile
accepts regular expressions and wildcard matching - so to ensure all js files get compiled, without specifying each by name, something like this should do the trick: