Rails Asset Pipeline loads all files

Question

I have multiple files in my app/assets/javscripts folder, application.js.erb , page.js.erb , sections.js.erb & scraped.js.erb .

Rails loads them all in my layout with <%= javascript_include_tag "application" %> in application.html.erb layout. Which is called from the PagesController .

I do not want scraped.js.erb to be loaded at all & sections.js.erb I would like to only be loaded from the SectionsController .

From my understanding (after reading http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html ) that's how the asset pipeline worked. That if called from the PagesController it would load application.js.erb & page.js.erb but obviously that's not the case.

Am I doing something wrong? Could someone explain to me how the asset pipeline works? And how I can only use select assets rather than all of them?

Answer 1

Check your manifest file, in assets/javascript you got the file application.js, it contains //= require_tree . which include during compilation all files of the directory tree.

If you want to exclude some files you can either require your files one by one: // require my_file , either create sub directories in your javascript directory and use //= require_directory my_directory

Read more http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html