[LRUG] resolving JS dependencies on deploy

[Tom Armitage]

TBH, I’m not fussed about it being gemified - it’s a single .js file,
really - but I liked that rails-assets exposed a Ruby packaging mechanism
to me, rather than wrapping a node one.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Riccardo Cambiassi <bru at codewitch.org>
wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> I'm not sure it applies to your case, given your problem is with
> licensing, but would it make sense to fetch the said gemified library from
> a git(hub) clone repo?
>
>   R
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Tom Armitage <tom at infovore.org> wrote:
>
>> I have a Rails project with dependencies on a single external JS library
>> that for reasons - primarily, licensing - I don’t want to include in my
>> vendored libraries.
>>
>> Currently, I’ve been referencing it via Rails-Assets (
>> https://github.com/rails-assets/rails-assets) which makes it available
>> as a gem, and thus it’s bundled by the end-user at deployment time.
>>
>> Except: Rails-Assets is down, again, and the future of the project is
>> feeling a tad suspect. So I’m asking for myself: what are my alternatives
>> here?
>>
>> I am loathe to tear out my basic usage of asset-pipeline to replace it
>> with some onerous npm-derived asset preprocessing (gulp, grunt, etc, etc,
>> etc); I also really can’t include the library within my codebase, so need
>> to find a way for it to be pulled down, both locally (for development) and
>> on deployment via Capistrano.
>>
>> Any thoughts? How do you tend to do this?
>>
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