Asset Pipeline Poem

Objectives
Explore the assets pipeline in rails
Practice structuring require statements
Precompile compressed javascript assets

Terms:

• Manifest
• Pre/compilation
• Concatenation
• Compression / Minification
• Browser Caching
• MD5 fingerprint

###Instructions:

• This rails app does not have a database.
• Your goal is to reconstruct a simple poem
• DO NOT modify any files, you are only allowed to "require" them in the manifest.
• When you precompile your javascript assets, they should all appear in application.js
• Your solution should work in production:
  • rails server --environment=production

###The Asset Pipeline Assets live in the following locations, inside of your rails application directory:

app/
    assets/
        images/
        javascripts/
        stylesheets/
lib/
    assets/
        javascripts/
        stylesheets/
vendor/
    assets/
        javascripts/
        stylesheets/

Each directory has a specific use-case. Do you know which is which?

After running RAILS_ENV=development rake assets:precompile, your concatenated/compressed assets will live in:

public/
    assets/

When in doubt, start fresh:

• Delete tmp/cache/assets/
• Delete public/assets/
• ( OR, you can just run: RAILS_ENV=development rake assets:clobber )
• Restart your Server

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###Additional Goals:

1. There's a nifty little library I've written for calculating word counts and character counts called "poem_meta_data" (see /lib). Include it.
2. Note that reset.css is being included using a CDN. It's a quick and dirty way of including it, but let's save it locally:
   • touch reset.css
   • curl -vs URL_OF_CSS_FILE > reset.css
   • Then, delete the old cdn link, and "require" the new reset. (Where are you going to put it?)

When you're done it should look like this:

####Reading http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html https://github.com/rails/sprockets#sprockets-directives