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Asked: 2026-05-19T15:12:40+00:00

I want to serve up all my content gzipped. I’m using Ruby on Rails

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I want to serve up all my content gzipped. I’m using Ruby on Rails 3 and the server has Apache/Phusion. I can see two main ways to compress output:

  1. Use an after_filter like the output_compression plugin
  2. Use .htaccess file

Which way is more efficient? Is there a better way?

It looks like the output_compression plugin is fairly old. From my little experience with Rails, it looks like it would still work with Rails 3, but I’m not sure.

Also, if I use an after_filter, static files won’t be compressed, right?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You very much want to use mod_deflate:
    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html

    It takes care of compressing all files served from the apache instance.

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