How can I drive Rails asset pipeline from a controller?

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In Rails, I want to drive the asset pipeline to compile and minify my js file and get the result as a string. The js file uses sprockets to combine multiple files together.

How can I do this?

This needs to be run from a controller action. It's not as simple as just serving an asset, rather, I want to get my compiled and minified JS as a string and then do something with it.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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You can do something like this to access your asset.

view_context.asset_path 'your_file.js'

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How does one reference compiled assets from the controller in Rails 3.1?

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