Building a project on rails

Question

Ruby on Rails

I am doing my first project on rails and want to ask a question about the project structure.

The project is on github, let's say I use several jquery plugins (located in /app/assets/javascript), adding them to my repository seems to me not a very good tone.

Is there such a collector in rails that, when building a project in production, downloads all the necessary plugins for JS from where?

PS I am using rails 3.2

Answer 1

Well, do not keep them in the project, just link to the CDN.

Answer 2

app/assets- for files that belong to or are created by the application itself.
lib/assets- for your libraries, which you yourself wrote and belong to you.
vendor/assets- for libraries from third-party developers.
This does not solve your problem, but at least you will not interfere with your files with other people's libraries. I also started throwing everything in app/assets, there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just not beautiful and my hands don’t reach to rearrange everything in its place - laziness ...
There are gems for popular frameworks that can be included in the gemfile

# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
  gem 'bootstrap-sass'
  gem 'chosen-rails'
  gem 'angularjs-rails'
  gem 'markitup-rails'
  gem 'font-awesome-rails'
end

Look for the gem you need.
For example jquery plugins.

  gem 'chosen-rails'
  gem 'markitup-rails'

As an option, I have not tried it myself, you can add a folder to asset-pipeline
config/application

config.assets.paths << "/home/username/Dropbox/jsLibs"

And put libraries in dropbox.