Rails 3.1 asset pipeline and manually ordered Javascript requires

Question

I am trying to convert an existing app to the new 3.1 asset pipeline layout, and want to include a lot of vendor files that have to be in a specific order, (underscore.js an

Answer 1

require_tree does exactly what you tell it. If you give it

//= require_tree .

it loads the files in the current directory where require_tree is called. If you give it

//=require_tree ../../../vendor/assets/javascripts

then you'll get the javascript under vendor.

I did not like the ../../.. notation, so I created a file called vendor/assets/javascripts/vendor_application.js which contains:

//= require_tree .

That loads the javascript under the vendor directory.

Note, require does search the 3 pipeline locations (app, lib, vendor) for the file to require. require_tree is literal, which is probably the way it should be.

The railscast on this is very helpful: http://railscasts.com/episodes/279-understanding-the-asset-pipeline