CachedAssets

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

Installation

To get the latest version:

  script/plugin install http://cachedassets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk

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' %>