Even though the asset pipeline was announced a few months ago and has been available in Rails 3.1 for a while now, it’s taken me some time to getting  to complete understanding what it’s all about. I’ve tried to condense what I’ve learned here in a post that you can hopefully digest in 5 minutes or so. The basics As David Heinemeier Hansson said at Railsconf 2011, the asset pipeline has one main goal, that is to make it easy to treat assets such as js code and css as first class citizens in your Rails app. Practically it does…read more