Rails 3.1 Pipeline - Exclude Javascript File

Question

I want to exclude a particular javascript file (modernizr) from the pipeline because I want it to load separately.

I want to load Modernizr at the beginning and th

Answer 1

I realize this is an old question, but Google sent me here last week so it's not an obsolete question. The answer I found elsewhere was the "stub" directive for sprockets. So something like

//= require-tree .
//= stub Modernizr

This keeps Modernizr.js out of the bundled assets. It can be included with its own tag, à la the original answer.

The Sprockets changelog says "stub" was added in January 2012, so it wouldn't have been available at the time this question was first answered, but I think it's a good answer now.