Question

In a Rails 3 application, I would like to be able to use unminified javascript and css files in my development environment for debugging and such, and minified versions in production.

I can think of a few hacky solutions, but ideally I’d like javascript_include_tag and friends to automatically select the right asset file.

Ideas?

Answer 1

Add your js normally using

javascript_include_tag 

In your development.rb set:

config.assets.compress = false

and in production.rb use:

config.assets.compress = true