Question

I have come across IE8’s 31 CSS file limit.

I am thinking that, unless I am mistaken, the asset pipeline will combine my CSS files for production, and this will therefore not be a problem.

It is, however, a problem while I debug for IE. Is there a way to use the asset pipeline to compile the assets during development. What would the best process for this be?

The assets are being included via the application.css.scss, using require_directory .

Answer 1

Not knowing how you’re including your assets in your layout file (seeing this in your question would be helpful), in config/environments/development.rb you can add the following

config.assets.debug = false

As explained in the documentation

When debug mode is off, Sprockets concatenates and runs the necessary preprocessors on all files.

This is how I develop; 31 HTTP requess (even in development) is annoying to sit through every page refresh.