Assetify

Downloads/updates assets. Any framework.

Install

gem install assetify

Use

On any project`s root:

assetify

This will create a Assetfile if not found.

Assetfile

Like a Gemfile, but you choose the filetype (or extension) before:

type "name", "url", <"version"> or <:options>

js "jquery", "http://code.jquery.com/jquery-{VERSION}.min.js", "1.6"
js "tipsy",  "https://github.com/jaz303/tipsy/.../jquery.tipsy.js"

Stylesheets:

css "tipsy", "https://github.com/jaz303/tipsy/.../jquery.tipsy.css"

Any file:

mp3 "alert", "http://link/to/audio"

Now just run assetify to make sure everything is installed/up-to-date.

Groups

Use groups/namespaces to group related assets together:

group "forms" do
  js "validator", url
  js "textmask",  url
end

This will install as "vendor/assets/javascripts/forms/validator.js"

You can nest groups too:

group "forms" do
  js "validator", url
  group "extra" do
    js "another", url
  end
end

Pkgs

Big projects makes you download tons of files for some .min files and css.

pkg "fancy", "http://to.tgz.or.zip" do
  js  "cool", "internal/js/cool.js"
  css "cool", "internal/css/cool.css"
end

This downloads and 'cherry pick' the files. Files will be written with the namespace "fancy":

/javascripts/fancy/cool.js

You can pass :shallow => true to avoid the namespace:

pkg "fancy", "http://to.tgz.or.zip", :shallow => true do

Results in:

/javascript/cool.js

Also, please check out the note about link inside pkgs below.

Dir

You can resource a full directory of files, too. Very useful when dealing with pkgs:

pkg "complexfw", "link" do
  js  "complex.min.js"
  dir "images/", :to => "images/complexfw"
  # Another option, treat all as a type:
  dir "src/", :as => :js
end

All files inside images will be copied to "images/complexfw" and all files in 'src' to 'javascripts' (or whatever else jspath is).

Note: Have in mind that the "link" inside dir/packages is a regex that returns the first match inside the archive. Check out libarchive or the pkg.rb source for more info.

Global 'a'

If the link contains the file extension, say: 'fu.com/lib.js' You can use just 'a' to specify each asset:

a  "tipsy", "http://...tipsy.js"
a  "tipsy", "http://...tipsy.css"
a  "video", "http://...video.mpeg"

Versions

Assetify first recognizes the file as text or binary. If the file is human readable, try a X.X.Xxx pattern match that if found, is used, otherwise use md5sum.

Other

Set a different location per file:

js "other", "http://lib.../other.js", :to => "different/path"

Filename will be: ./different/path/other.js This works for namespaces too, change "to" with "ns".

Options

Change some default settings:

newname      true || false
javascripts  "public/javascripts"
stylesheets  "public/stylesheets"
images       "public/images"

If newname is set to true (default) the file will be renamed. Ex:

js "validator", "http//.../jquery.validator.min.js"

Filename will be: "validator.js"

Rails

Out of the box support for rails 3.1, defaults to 'vendor/assets'. Rails 3.0< users should change the options as above.

Contributing

Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
Fork the project
Start a feature/bugfix branch
Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.