Question

I have all the javascript files under app/assets/javascripts

Some of the javascript files

• application.js
• effect.js
• rails.js
• prototype.js
• scriptaculous.js

When pre compiling assets rake assets:precompile it creating application.js in public/assets

But the application.js file included only the content present in app/assets/javascript/application.js ,not including other js file contents(efect,prototype).

If I add javascript files to config.assets.precompile like this

config.assets.precompile += %w( rails.js menu.js )

this create separate js file for each in public/assets

In my production.rb file

# Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)

config.serve_static_assets = true

# Compress JavaScripts and CSS
config.assets.compress = true

I need to combine all javascript files into singlefile.

I’m using prototype.

Anything I am missing?

Answer 1

On application.js you have to include the files you want to combine adding this in the beggining:

//= require effect
//= require rails
//= require prototype
//= require scriptaculous

or if they are all in the same folder

//= require_tree .

Then in your application you must include tags only for application.js, not for each one.