missing gzip version of css and js assets

Question

I\'m using Rails 4.2 for a quite simple project. When I run rake assets:precompile (for development as well as production environments) I get an applicati

Answer 1

As of Sprockets 3.5.2, gzip compression is enabled again and gz assets are generated. You do have to configure your server to serve them correctly. For Nginx:

location ~ ^/(assets)/ {
  gzip_static on;
}

Then in application.rb:

  config.middleware.insert_before(Rack::Sendfile, Rack::Deflater)

  # Compress JavaScripts and CSS.
  config.assets.compress = true
  config.assets.js_compressor = Uglifier.new(mangle: false)