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Re:Rails Assets: frictionless proxy between Bundler and Bower by teamon on Thursday December 12, 2013 @09:34AM (#6894582)
There are various solutions to managing assets in a rails application but we didn't like any of them. The one you linked to requires having separate list of dependencies and using bower directly which means hacking standard rails deployment.
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Re:Rails Assets: frictionless proxy between Bundler and Bower by bigtunacan on Thursday December 12, 2013 @10:33AM (#6894931)
Love it. Keeping JavaScript libraries up to date in Rails can be a real pain and the sprockets solution just isn't all that great. I like how you have approached this with a dead simple approach to implementation and integrating with the existing tooling (bundler/Gemfile). Good work!
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Re:Rails Assets: frictionless proxy between Bundler and Bower by joshpeek on Thursday December 12, 2013 @11:08AM (#6895144)
This doesn't replace Sprockets at all, but integrates with it. It replaces bower "installer" with a pure ruby dependency. Sprocket still handles the runtime operation.
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Re:Rails Assets: frictionless proxy between Bundler and Bower by bigtunacan on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:16PM (#6896031)
joshpeek, I wasn't suggesting this replaces sprockets. I was saying that the sprockets/bower integration out of the box isn't all that great, and this seems like a useful tool to help improve the situation of a common problem.
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