sprockets

Long time Rails[1] user. Have discovered Npm[2], Bower[3], Grunt[4], Yeoman[5] recently. How do I get these excellent tools to play nicely with the Rails ecosystem[6]? Notably Sprockets[7] and Grunt do not seem to see eye to eye? What strategies have you used? Would love to know. [1] http://rubyonrails.org/ [2] https://www.npmjs.org/ [3] http://bower.io/ [4] http://gruntjs.com/ [5] http://yeoman.io/ [6] http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html [7] https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets

I was really curious to see the pull request, so I hunted it down: https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets/issues/506 Edit: if you just want to install a gem and skip the why, the parent has this blog post: https://www.coffeepowered.net/2014/02/09/faster-pathname/

This looks like a solid project. I want to mention mincer[1], which I have used in the past for compiling assets, and it has been an entirely painless process. Definitely take a look at it as an alternative, which has been around longer and has seen assistance from the folks behind sprockets[2] (according to the README) for creating a similar API. 1. https://github.com/nodeca/mincer 2. https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets

Broccoli is a new build tool. It’s comparable to the Rails asset pipeline in scope, though it runs on Node and is backend-agnostic. This first line is a little disingenuous. Technically, it's not backend-agnostic, since it depends on Node being installed on the backend (in the same way that Sprockets [1] depends on Ruby). The Rails asset pipeline is a framework-specific integration of Sprockets. In much the same way, you could more closely integrate Broccoli with Rails if you wanted and call it a new Rails asset pipeline. The project itself looks great, just the first line was confusing since they started the docs off by comparing apples to oranges. A better comparison would probably be, "It's comparable to Sprockets (which powers the Rails asset pipeline), but runs on Node instead of Ruby." [1] https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets