Evax is a simple asset packaging library for Ruby, providing JavaScript/CSS concatenation and compression using UglifyJS and a really simple regex based CSS compressor. Just because enough is enough.
The idea behind it is to have a really simple library to compress your assets in the simplest way without any weird dependency. There are nice assets packaging systems out there but they have too many options for some cases. Sometimes, you just want to play with a pet project.
Create a YAML file describing assets, Evax will take it and compress the javascript and stylesheets files to the output directory of your choice. Done.
gem install evax
output_path: tmp/
javascripts:
js_package_one:
- test/fixtures/javascripts/one.js
- test/fixtures/javascripts/two.js
- test/fixtures/javascripts/three.js
js_package_two:
- test/fixtures/javascripts/four.js
stylesheets:
css_package_one:
- test/fixtures/stylesheets/one.css
- test/fixtures/stylesheets/two.css
css_package_two:
- test/fixtures/stylesheets/three.css
- test/fixtures/stylesheets/four.css
evax /path/to/assets.yml /relative/path
Add evax to your Gemfile:
gem 'evax'
Create a Rake task for running it, e.g.:
namespace :evax do
desc 'Build assets'
task :build do
ASSETS_PATH = /path/to/assets.yml
RELATVE_PATH = /relative/path
Evax.new(ASSETS_PATH, RELATVE_PATH).build
end
end