http://langalex.soup.io/ http://langalex.soup.io/ http://8.asset.soup.io/asset/0033/3704_0021.jpeg 128 128 {"tags":["tree","cat"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6889072434/","body":"Cat trying to get up","url":"http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/3056/3389_3376.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6889072434/"><img alt="3389_3376_400" height="599" src="http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/3056/3389_3376_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p>Cat trying to get up</p>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:38:28 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/242955591/Cat-trying-to-get-upurn:www-soup-io:1:242955591imagetreecat {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6786869913/","body":null,"url":"http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2891/0141_c21f.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6786869913/"><img alt="0141_c21f_400" height="266" src="http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2891/0141_c21f_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:27:43 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227625728/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:227625728imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6786868769/","body":"Central Park","url":"http://e.asset.soup.io/asset/2891/0142_105d.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6786868769/"><img alt="0142_105d_400" height="266" src="http://e.asset.soup.io/asset/2891/0142_105d_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p>Central Park</p>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:27:30 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227625738/Central-Parkurn:www-soup-io:1:227625738imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778939605/","body":null,"url":"http://3.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3555_8ed9.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778939605/"><img alt="3555_8ed9_400" height="599" src="http://3.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3555_8ed9_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:32:37 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227276281/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:227276281imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778939141/","body":null,"url":"http://9.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3561_8c67.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778939141/"><img alt="3561_8c67_400" height="599" src="http://9.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3561_8c67_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:32:30 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227276319/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:227276319imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778938569/","body":null,"url":"http://4.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3572_35ee.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778938569/"><img alt="3572_35ee_400" height="266" src="http://4.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3572_35ee_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:32:22 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227276352/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:227276352imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778938065/","body":null,"url":"http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3578_e076.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778938065/"><img alt="3578_e076_400" height="266" src="http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3578_e076_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:32:15 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227276375/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:227276375imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778937331/","body":null,"url":"http://0.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3584_aaa6.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778937331/"><img alt="3584_aaa6_400" height="266" src="http://0.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3584_aaa6_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:32:05 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227276413/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:227276413imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778936633/","body":null,"url":"http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3591_8b4c.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778936633/"><img alt="3591_8b4c_400" height="599" src="http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3591_8b4c_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:31:55 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227276457/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:227276457imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778935959/","body":"Sunrise","url":"http://f.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3599_626d.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778935959/"><img alt="3599_626d_400" height="266" src="http://f.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3599_626d_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p>Sunrise</p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:31:46 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227276477/Sunriseurn:www-soup-io:1:227276477imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["nyc","newyorkcity"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778935233/","body":null,"url":"http://8.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3608_e703.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778935233/"><img alt="3608_e703_400" height="266" src="http://8.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3608_e703_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:31:35 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227276506/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:227276506imagenycnewyorkcity {"tags":["airplane"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778934367/","body":null,"url":"http://f.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3615_0a90.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6778934367/"><img alt="3615_0a90_400" height="266" src="http://f.asset.soup.io/asset/2887/3615_0a90_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:31:23 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/227276536/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:227276536imageairplane {"tags":[""],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6741660909/","body":"Old and New 2","url":"http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2858/4125_2fd7.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6741660909/"><img alt="4125_2fd7_400" height="599" src="http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2858/4125_2fd7_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p>Old and New 2</p>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:20:07 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/225364099/Old-and-New-2urn:www-soup-io:1:225364099image {"tags":[""],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6702031591/","body":null,"url":"http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2825/4458_55b2.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6702031591/"><img alt="4458_55b2_400" height="266" src="http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2825/4458_55b2_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:11:27 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/220681634/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:220681634image {"tags":[""],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6702027685/","body":null,"url":"http://c.asset.soup.io/asset/2825/4460_9cc6.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6702027685/"><img alt="4460_9cc6_400" height="266" src="http://c.asset.soup.io/asset/2825/4460_9cc6_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:10:47 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/220681688/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:220681688image {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673348941/","body":null,"url":"http://5.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1733_e185.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673348941/"><img alt="1733_e185_400" height="599" src="http://5.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1733_e185_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:03:30 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855632/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855632imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673348453/","body":null,"url":"http://8.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1736_18f3.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673348453/"><img alt="1736_18f3_400" height="599" src="http://8.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1736_18f3_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:03:23 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855637/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855637imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673347447/","body":null,"url":"http://c.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1740_5138.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673347447/"><img alt="1740_5138_400" height="599" src="http://c.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1740_5138_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:03:10 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855643/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855643imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673347045/","body":null,"url":"http://1.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1745_4a48.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673347045/"><img alt="1745_4a48_400" height="266" src="http://1.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1745_4a48_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:03:05 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855650/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855650imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673346745/","body":null,"url":"http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1751_cd12.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673346745/"><img alt="1751_cd12_400" height="600" src="http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1751_cd12_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:03:01 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855658/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855658imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673346243/","body":null,"url":"http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1754_d36c.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673346243/"><img alt="1754_d36c_400" height="266" src="http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1754_d36c_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:02:55 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855668/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855668imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673345667/","body":null,"url":"http://3.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1763_6e4b.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673345667/"><img alt="1763_6e4b_400" height="266" src="http://3.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1763_6e4b_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:02:46 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855678/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855678imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673344597/","body":null,"url":"http://b.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1771_d4ff.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673344597/"><img alt="1771_d4ff_400" height="266" src="http://b.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1771_d4ff_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:02:31 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855702/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855702imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673344031/","body":null,"url":"http://1.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1777_c76d.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673344031/"><img alt="1777_c76d_400" height="266" src="http://1.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1777_c76d_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:02:23 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855718/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855718imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673343749/","body":null,"url":"http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1786_6664.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673343749/"><img alt="1786_6664_400" height="266" src="http://a.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1786_6664_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:02:19 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855733/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855733imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673343369/","body":null,"url":"http://4.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1796_7960.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673343369/"><img alt="1796_7960_400" height="599" src="http://4.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1796_7960_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:02:14 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855753/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855753imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673342897/","body":null,"url":"http://e.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1806_e31a.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673342897/"><img alt="1806_e31a_400" height="266" src="http://e.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1806_e31a_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:02:08 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855764/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855764imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673342523/","body":null,"url":"http://4.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1812_a78f.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673342523/"><img alt="1812_a78f_400" height="266" src="http://4.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1812_a78f_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:02:03 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855773/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855773imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673342131/","body":null,"url":"http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1821_c9c3.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673342131/"><img alt="1821_c9c3_400" height="267" src="http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1821_c9c3_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:57 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855788/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855788imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673341861/","body":null,"url":"http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1831_7318.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673341861/"><img alt="1831_7318_400" height="599" src="http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1831_7318_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:54 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855796/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855796imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673341435/","body":null,"url":"http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1837_e3e2.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673341435/"><img alt="1837_e3e2_400" height="266" src="http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1837_e3e2_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:48 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855806/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855806imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673340987/","body":null,"url":"http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1847_d2da.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673340987/"><img alt="1847_d2da_400" height="599" src="http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1847_d2da_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:42 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855820/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855820imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673340505/","body":null,"url":"http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1853_3e77.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673340505/"><img alt="1853_3e77_400" height="266" src="http://d.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1853_3e77_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:35 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855830/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855830imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673340059/","body":null,"url":"http://5.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1861_cc3f.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673340059/"><img alt="1861_cc3f_400" height="266" src="http://5.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1861_cc3f_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:30 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855843/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855843imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["carribean","barbados"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673339455/","body":null,"url":"http://e.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1870_cd1e.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6673339455/"><img alt="1870_cd1e_400" height="266" src="http://e.asset.soup.io/asset/2792/1870_cd1e_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:21 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/216855854/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:216855854imagecarribeanbarbados {"tags":["book","ipad"],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6631113799/","body":"Old and new","url":"http://9.asset.soup.io/asset/2753/3673_f0fb.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6631113799/"><img alt="3673_f0fb_400" height="266" src="http://9.asset.soup.io/asset/2753/3673_f0fb_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p>Old and new</p>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:20:26 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/211362231/Old-and-newurn:www-soup-io:1:211362231imagebookipad {"tags":["Uncategorized","asset pipeline","assets","caching","expires","heroku","rails"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://upstre.am/blog/2011/10/http-caching-assets-in-rails-3-1/\"\u003EHttp Caching assets in Rails 3.1\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://upstre.am/blog/2011/10/http-caching-assets-in-rails-3-1/","body":"\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019ve been wrestling with this for the past few hours and finally got it working so I\u2019m going to share this, hoping it might save others a few hours of their lives.\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019m currently working on a Rails 3.1 app that is being deployed to \u003Ca href=\"http://heroku.com\"\u003EHeroku\u003C/a\u003E. We use the asset pipeline to serve all our assets and we want those to load fast. By default Rails sets ETag headers, which means that for every (web page) request the browser checks on all the assets, usually resulting in a \u003Cem\u003E304 Not Modifed\u003C/em\u003E response from the server. It\u2019s faster than serving the assets each time but it still means one round trip per asset. We can avoid this by setting an \u003Cem\u003EExpires\u003C/em\u003E headers with a far future date.\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo do this add the following lines to your \u003Cem\u003Eproduction.rb\u003C/em\u003E:\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cpre\u003E\u003Ccode\u003Econfig.serve_static_assets = true\nconfig.static_cache_control = \"public, max-age=30758400\"\nconfig.assets.compile = true\nconfig.assets.digest = true\n\u003C/code\u003E\u003C/pre\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis will precompile the assets when you push the app to Heroku and set an \u003Cem\u003EExpires\u003C/em\u003E header with an expiry date 1 year in the future.\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDon\u2019t forget that you must reference your assets through the Rails asset helpers like \u003Ccode\u003Easset_tag\u003C/code\u003E and \u003Ccode\u003Eimage_tag\u003C/code\u003E (in \u003Cem\u003E*.scss\u003C/em\u003E files you can use \u003Ccode\u003Eimage-url()\u003C/code\u003E etc. instead of the \u003Ccode\u003Eurl()\u003C/code\u003E call that comes with CSS).\u003C/p\u003E"} <p>I’ve been wrestling with this for the past few hours and finally got it working so I’m going to share this, hoping it might save others a few hours of their lives.</p> <p>I’m currently working on a Rails 3.1 app that is being deployed to <a href="http://heroku.com">Heroku</a>. We use the asset pipeline to serve all our assets and we want those to load fast. By default Rails sets ETag headers, which means that for every (web page) request the browser checks on all the assets, usually resulting in a <em>304 Not Modifed</em> response from the server. It’s faster than serving the assets each time but it still means one round trip per asset. We can avoid this by setting an <em>Expires</em> headers with a far future date.</p> <p>To do this add the following lines to your <em>production.rb</em>:</p> <pre><code>config.serve_static_assets = true config.static_cache_control = "public, max-age=30758400" config.assets.compile = true config.assets.digest = true </code></pre> <p>This will precompile the assets when you push the app to Heroku and set an <em>Expires</em> header with an expiry date 1 year in the future.</p> <p>Don’t forget that you must reference your assets through the Rails asset helpers like <code>asset_tag</code> and <code>image_tag</code> (in <em>*.scss</em> files you can use <code>image-url()</code> etc. instead of the <code>url()</code> call that comes with CSS).</p>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:30:00 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/192130453/Http-Caching-assets-in-Rails-3-1urn:www-soup-io:1:192130453regularuncategorizedasset pipelineassetscachingexpiresherokurails {"tags":[],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6145466992/","body":null,"url":"http://3.asset.soup.io/asset/2372/2483_f474.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6145466992/"><img alt="2483_f474_400" height="266" src="http://3.asset.soup.io/asset/2372/2483_f474_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:13:33 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/160678575/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:160678575image {"tags":[],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6144914637/","body":null,"url":"http://5.asset.soup.io/asset/2372/2485_50b5.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6144914637/"><img alt="2485_50b5_400" height="266" src="http://5.asset.soup.io/asset/2372/2485_50b5_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:12:56 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/160678586/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:160678586image {"tags":[],"type":"image","source":"http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6145459626/","body":null,"url":"http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2372/2487_9053.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/langalex/6145459626/"><img alt="2487_9053_400" height="266" src="http://7.asset.soup.io/asset/2372/2487_9053_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:10:43 GMThttp://www.langalex.org/post/160678598/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:160678598image