Wake::Assets

This module helps you render links to assets managed using wake. It's easy to set up and works with any Ruby web framework.

Installation

$ gem install wake-assets

Usage

These examples are based on the wake example build config.

At boot time

When your app boots, create an instance of Wake::Assets and keep this object around through the lifetime of the app process. For example, in Rails:

require 'wake/assets'

dev = Rails.env.development?

$wake = Wake::Assets.new(
  :wake  => File.expand_path('node_modules/.bin/wake', Rails.root),
  :root  => File.expand_path('public', Rails.root),
  :mode  => dev ? :sources : :targets,
  :cache => !dev
)

The options are:

  • :wake - the path to your wake executable
  • :root - the document root of your application
  • :mode - :sources if you want to render links to source files, :targets if you want optimised files
  • :cache - whether to cache wake metadata files in memory, recommended in production but not in development

At request time

On each request, create a renderer from your Assets instance. In Rails, you might do this with a helper:

module AssetsHelper
  CONFIG_PATH = File.expand_path('package.json', Rails.root)
  ASSET_HOSTS = JSON.parse(File.read(CONFIG_PATH))['wake']['css']['hosts']

  def assets
    @assets ||= $wake.renderer(
      :builds => {
        'css'        => request.ssl? ? 'ssl' : 'min',
        'javascript' => 'min',
        'binary'     => 'min'
      },
      :hosts  => ASSET_HOSTS[Rails.env][request.ssl? ? 'https' : 'http'],
      :inline => false
    )
  end
end

The options are:

  • :builds - which build to use for each asset type, the default for each is min
  • :hosts - the set of asset hosts to use for rendering links, the default is an empty list
  • :inline - whether to render assets inline so the browser does not make additional requests for them, default is false

In your templates

With this helper in place, you can render links to JavaScript, CSS and images:

assets.include_js 'scripts.js'
# => '<script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/scripts-bb210c6.js"></script>'

assets.include_css 'style.css'
# => '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/assets/styles-5a2ceb1.css">'

assets.include_image 'logo.png', :html => {:alt => 'Logo'}
# => '<img src="/assets/logo-2fa8d38.png" alt="Logo">'

You can pass the :inline option to any of these to override the per-request :inline setting:

assets.include_js 'scripts.js', :inline => true
# => '<script type="text/javascript">alert("Hello, world!")</script>'

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 James Coglan, Songkick

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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