Javascript_include_tag and stylesheet_link_tag additional generated parameters

Rails
1

Hi.

I just wonder why do the javascript_include_tag and
stylesheet_link_tag methods generate additional parameters and add
them to the paths on output?

For example, I have the following view:

app/views/test.haml

%html
%head
= stylesheet_link_tag ‘styles.css’
= javascript_include_tag ‘scripts.js’
…

and when I load it, I get the next HTML:

...

What do ‘1276104169’ and ‘1275579095’ mean and why are they added to
the paths?

Any help and links are wellcome.

Thanks.

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.4;
Ruby 1.9.2;
Rails 2.3.8.

2

On Jun 10, 3:00 pm, “P.A.” [email protected] wrote:

the paths?
They’re the timestamps of when the file was changed. If you do update
the css/javascript files then when you next rollout the timestamp will
be different and people’s browsers won’t cache the old version

Fred

3

And if you want to get rid of them for some reason just create new
initializer with following code:

ENV[‘RAILS_ASSET_ID’] = ‘’

and restart your server. All this numbers will go away.