Rails Assets

Rails Assets is a merger between Bundler and Bower.

Bundler is a Ruby tool for managing assets and dependencies. Bower on the other hand does the same thing, only for Node.js.

Using these two tools is considered an unofficial standard for both development environments, helping developers consistently reduce the time spent working on a project.

Rails Assets combines the two by allowing Ruby on Rails developers to load Bower packages inside their Ruby on Rails application.

Rails Assets will load and then convert the Bower JavaScript component into a GEM file. This GEM file is then loaded inside the current Ruby on Rails application's asset pipeline and made ready to use anywhere in the code.

This eliminates the need of manually converting JS code to GEM files and preparing it for usage inside a Ruby project.

Requirements:

• Ruby 2 or higher
• Ruby on Rails