Asset Tag Extensions

Extensions to the standard asset tag helpers available in Rails to help create manageable stylesheets and javascripts.

AssetTagExtensions provides the following convenience methods:

• swf_tag – Add a Flash swf tag complete with asset id support
• additional_js – Specify additional javascript files to be included via javascript_include_tag
• additional_css – Specify additional stylesheets to be included via stylesheet_link_tag

AssetTagExtensions will extend the standard helpers for including javascript and stylesheet files to have the following behavior:

1. Work unmodified, can be dropped into existing projects 2. Check for the existense of, and include, controller.(js|css) and controller/action.(js|css) 3. Include additional js and css files specified in views with additional_(js|css)

The controller and action specific assets was borrowed from the excellent Styler and Javascripter plugins. The additional_(js|css) convenience methods are from my own experience in having modular assets. The swf_tag just seemed to be a natural fit as another extension.

This allows you to easily modularize your javascript and stylesheets into an almost endless amount of configurations.

Example

In your layout:

<%= javascript_include_tag :default %>

In your home/index.rhtml:

<%= additional_js ‘ads’ %>

Output:

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly