unified-assets

Unified Assets (v0.0.1)

A small utility for unifying (and minifying) static javascript and css asset files, either at build time or at run-time.

You declare a list of source files, and the gem will unify and minify them.

The gem also provides a simple rack-based web server that will serve up your static website files and automatically recreate the unified files if the underlying source files have been modified.

NOTE:

This gem is really for my own personal use when building some of my HTML-only games. They consist of pure client-side html, javascript and css, with no dynamic server back end, but I still want to auto-generate unified and minified scripts and styles.

You will almost certainly be better off with more robust tools such as:

• sprockets - if you have a ruby/rails back end
• gears - if you have a python back end
• mincer - if you have a node back end
• requirejs - if you want to do it the AMD way

This is just a tiny little gem that works well for my specific purposes and might not be the best tool for others. Use your own judgement.

Installation

$ gem install unified-assets

Usage

To generate a unified/minified scripts.js and styles.css add tasks to your Rakefile

require 'unified_assets/tasks'

UnifiedAssets::Tasks.new do |t|
  t.minify = true
  t.assets = {

    "scripts.js"  => [
      'js/game/vendor/stats.js',            # https://github.com/mrdoob/stats.js
      'js/game/vendor/sizzle.js',           # http://sizzlejs.com/
      'js/game/vendor/animator.js',         # http://berniesumption.com/software/animator/
      'js/game/vendor/audio-fx.js',         # https://github.com/jakesgordon/javascript-audio-fx
      'js/game/vendor/state-machine.js',    # https://github.com/jakesgordon/javascript-state-machine
      'js/game/base.js',
      'js/game/game.js',
      'js/game/dom.js',
      'js/game/menu.js',
      'js/game/key.js',
      'js/game/math.js',
      'js/game/vector.js',
      'js/snakes.js'
    ],

    "styles.css" => [
      'css/vendor/normalize.css',
      'css/snakes.css'
    ]

  }
end

Will make 3 rake tasks available to you:

> rake -T

rake assets:clear     # clear unified asset files
rake assets:create    # create unified asset files
rake assets:server    # simple webserver that auto-regenerates assets if they are out of date

Use rake assets:create whenever your source files have changed to recreate the unified/minified versions.

Use rake assets:server to run a simple rack-based web server that can serve up your static website and will automatically regenerate your unified assets if the source files have been changed.

TODO

• command line scripts
• support templating (e.g. sass, coffeescript, erb)

License

MIT license.

Contact

If you have any ideas, feedback, requests or bug reports, you can reach me at [e-mail], or via my website: Code inComplete.