Ruby on Rails plugin: Bundled CSS and Javascript assets

By bundling and compacting your CSS and Javascript ressources you can significantly reduce your page load times because there's (potentially) far less HTTP overhead occuring.

This little plugin does all the packaging and compacting for you - on the fly. There's no need to handle any Rake tasks or even copy stuff manually. Simply install the plugin and you're ready to use dynamic asset URLs in your templates.

You can read more about the Bundled Assets plugin here:

• Introductory article, concept and some discussion: Rails plugin: Blazing fast page loads through bundled CSS and Javascript
• Performance improvement through compiled JSMin and some configuration options added: Serve CSS and Javascript even faster: improved Rails bundled_assets plugin
• Usage tip: How to use the Bundled assets plugin with Rails' built-in tag helpers

You can grab the source code here:

http://svn.artweb-design.de/stuff/rails/bundled_assets