rake assets:precompile:nodigest in Rails 4

Question

In Rails 3 there was a rake assets:precompile:nodigest task which was compiling assets and writing them without the digest part in /public/assets directory. In Rails 4 this

Answer 1

My enormous analysis of all the available options is here:

https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/non-digested-asset-names-in-rails-4-your-options/

I decided to add a custom rake task, using custom configuration to determine certain assets to produce as non-digested versions, and using the Sprockets manifest to find the digested assets and copy them with non-digested names.

https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/blob/5edcc609389edf833a79caa6f3ef92982312f0c5/lib/tasks/umlaut_asset_compile.rake

# Rails4 doesn't create un-fingerprinted assets anymore, but we
# need a couple for umlaut's API. Let's try to hook in and make
# symlinks. 
#
# list of what file(globs) need non-digest-named copies is kept in
#     Umlaut::Engine.config.non_digest_named_assets
# defined in lib/umlaut.rb, but app can modify it if desired. 

require 'umlaut'
require 'pathname'


# Every time assets:precompile is called, trigger umlaut:create_non_digest_assets afterwards. 
Rake::Task["assets:precompile"].enhance do
  Rake::Task["umlaut:create_non_digest_assets"].invoke
end

namespace :umlaut do 

  # This seems to be basically how ordinary asset precompile
  # is logging, ugh. 
  logger = Logger.new($stderr)  

  # Based on suggestion at https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails/issues/49#issuecomment-20535134
  # but limited to files in umlaut's namespaced asset directories. 
  task :create_non_digest_assets => :"assets:environment"  do    
    manifest_path = Dir.glob(File.join(Rails.root, 'public/assets/manifest-*.json')).first
    manifest_data = JSON.load(File.new(manifest_path))

    manifest_data["assets"].each do |logical_path, digested_path|
      logical_pathname = Pathname.new logical_path

      if Umlaut::Engine.config.non_digest_named_assets.any? {|testpath| logical_pathname.fnmatch?(testpath, File::FNM_PATHNAME) }
        full_digested_path    = File.join(Rails.root, 'public/assets', digested_path)
        full_nondigested_path = File.join(Rails.root, 'public/assets', logical_path)

        logger.info "(Umlaut) Copying to #{full_nondigested_path}"

        # Use FileUtils.copy_file with true third argument to copy
        # file attributes (eg mtime) too, as opposed to FileUtils.cp
        # Making symlnks with FileUtils.ln_s would be another option, not
        # sure if it would have unexpected issues. 
        FileUtils.copy_file full_digested_path, full_nondigested_path, true      
      end
    end

  end
end