CachedAssets

Rails plugin to intended to help reduce the number of HTTP requests when loading static assets like stylesheets and JavaScript files.

Usage

Instead of using the default Rails helpers like

  <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
  <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'scaffold' %>

use:

  <%= cached_javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
  <%= cached_stylesheet_link_tag 'scaffold' %>

The key here is to have as few of these statements as possible because the plugin will make a single asset from the list of sources.

So, if you might have something like:

  <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag 'lightbox' %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag 'yui/yahoo-min', 'yui/event-min', 'yui/treeview-min' %>

then you want to combine them into a single statement, like so:

  <%= cached_javascript_include_tag :defaults, 'lightbox', 'yui/yahoo-min', 'yui/event-min', 'yui/treeview-min' %>

Documentation

Not much to document. Take a look at the plugin rdoc.