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Putting Sencha Architect 2 into Rails 3.1's asset pipeline

https://sunaku.github.io/sencha-architect2-rails31-asset-pipeline.html

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Posted by Sergey
Thursday Aug 01, 2013 at 20:33 GMT

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Hi!

thanks for the nice solution. Can you please poin me how to run it with Windows environment?

I am getting the error

$ rake -f gui.rake
ln -s ../../../gui gui
rake aborted!
symlink() function is unimplemented on this machine
D:/Sites/extjs_blog/app/assets/javascripts/gui.rake:10:in `block in '
Tasks: TOP => default => gui.js => gui
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Sergey

[sunaku]

Posted by sunaku
Saturday Aug 03, 2013 at 20:34 GMT

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For Windows (which does not support symbolic links) you can:

1. Move the gui/ directory from the root of your Rails project into the app/assets/javascripts/ directory.

2. Delete the following lines from your app/assets/javascripts/gui.rake script:

directory project = '../../../gui'
file 'gui' => project do |t|
ln_s t.prerequisites.first, t.name
end

Let me know if that works for you. Cheers!

[sunaku]

Posted by Sergey
Tuesday Aug 06, 2013 at 14:11 GMT

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Looks like it works. Here is the source of the page I got.

ExtjsBlog20130806

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What I have to do in production in case I want to see something more secured in the source of the page?

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Sergey

[sunaku]

Posted by sunaku
Wednesday Aug 07, 2013 at 03:41 GMT

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You don't need to do anything special. In production, the source will automatically look like this:

ExtjsBlog20130806

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Cheers.

[sunaku]

Posted by vishniakov
Thursday Aug 08, 2013 at 18:45 GMT

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Hi Sunaku,

can you please tell me, where in your Rails project could be placed extjs libraries (js and css)?

Regards,
Sergey

[sunaku]

Posted by sunaku
Friday Aug 09, 2013 at 19:57 GMT

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I put them in my Rails app's public/ folder (at public/ext-4.2.0.663/ currently) and reference them in my app/views/layouts/application.html.erb file:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag \
'/ext-4.2.0.663/resources/ext-theme-neptune/ext-theme-neptune-all-debug.css',
'application' %>
<%= javascript_include_tag \
'/ext-4.2.0.663/ext-all-debug-w-comments.js',
'application' %>

This is an alternative approach. The usual thing would be to include the ExtJS libraries in my application.{js,css} assets, but I don't do that because the assets compiler takes too long (and too much memory) to process them during deployment.

[sunaku]

Posted by vishniakov
Friday Aug 09, 2013 at 20:04 GMT

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Hi Sunaku,

thanks a lot for your assistance.

Regards,
Sergey