Rails源代码分析（49）：ActionView::Helpers::AssetTagHelper

Usage:

 1) using asset hosts

 

 

       ActionController::Base.asset_host = "assets.example.com"

       image_tag("rails.png")

         => <img src="http://assets.example.com/images/rails.png" alt="Rails" />

       stylesheet_link_tag("application")

         => <link href="http://assets.example.com/stylesheets/application.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

 

       ActionController::Base.asset_host = "assets%d.example.com"

       

       ActionController::Base.asset_host = Proc.new { |source| "http://assets#{rand(2) + 1}.example.com" }

 

 2) using asset timestamps

       rails will append all assets with the asset's timestamp

       note that in order for this to work, all your application servers must return the same timestamps. This means that they must their clocks synchronized. To avoid the request for assets over and over again from a random host.

 

Code Reading:

 

      ASSETS_DIR      = defined?(Rails.public_path) ? Rails.public_path : "public" # check the asset dir is setup

      

      JAVASCRIPTS_DIR = "#{ASSETS_DIR}/javascripts" # the convention js dir

      STYLESHEETS_DIR = "#{ASSETS_DIR}/stylesheets" # the convention css dir

 

 

 1) auto_discovery_link_tag(type = :rss, url_options = {}, tag_options = {})

    

tag( "link", "rel" => tag_options[:rel] || "alternate", "type" => tag_options[:type] || Mime::Type.lookup_by_extension(type.to_s).to_s, "title" => tag_options[:title] || type.to_s.upcase, "href" => url_options.is_a?(Hash) ? url_for(url_options.merge(:only_path => false)) : url_options ) 

 

     # Returns a link tag that browsers and news readers can use to auto-detect an RSS or ATOM feed.

 

 2)  javascript_path(source)

      

     compute_public_path(source, 'javascripts', 'js')

     # Computes the path to a javascript asset in the public javascripts directory. if source has no extension, '.js' will be appended.