Gzip fonts with asset pipeline

unknown · May 13, 2013, 10:41am

I’m using asset pipeline for fonts (app/assets/fonts).
asset pipeline does process the fonts directory when I precompile, but
it
is not creating a gzip version for the font files (while it is creating
ones for the JS/css files).
I’m using apache + passanger for serving rails.
Is there a way to make asset pipeline create gzip file for the font
files?

Thanks,
Yuval

unknown · May 13, 2013, 10:47am

On Monday, May 13, 2013 7:50:41 AM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:

I’m using asset pipeline for fonts (app/assets/fonts).
asset pipeline does process the fonts directory when I precompile, but it
is not creating a gzip version for the font files (while it is creating
ones for the JS/css files).
I’m using apache + passanger for serving rails.
Is there a way to make asset pipeline create gzip file for the font files?

As far as I can tell this is just hard coded into action pack:

github.com

rails/rails/blob/3-2-stable/actionpack/lib/sprockets/static_compiler.rb#L40


      
            File.open("#{@manifest_path}/manifest.yml", 'wb') do |f|
              YAML.dump(manifest, f)
            end
          end
          
          
def write_asset(asset)
            path_for(asset).tap do |path|
              filename = File.join(target, path)
              FileUtils.mkdir_p File.dirname(filename)
              asset.write_to(filename)
              asset.write_to("#{filename}.gz") if filename.to_s =~ /\.(css|js)$/
            end
          end
          
          
def path_for(asset)
            @digest ? asset.digest_path : asset.logical_path
          end
          
          
def aliased_path_for(logical_path)
            if File.basename(logical_path).start_with?('index')
              logical_path.sub(/\/index([^\/]+)$/, '\1')

If I remember correctly, it’s quite tricky to get apache to use the
pre-gzipped files - you might find it sufficient to have apache gzip
them
on the fly

Fred