html text output compression from rails (or apache/passenger)

Question

i have a quite strange request: i want to "compress" all the output from a rails app; with this i do not mean gzip or any similar compression, i mean to reformat the whole output (preferably with apache/passenger but can also be a rack middleware or rails plugin)

anyone knows if something like this exists? any apache module out there? if not, what would be a good way to implement something like this?

just to be more clear what i want:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>page title</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    info!
    <!-- my comment -->
    </body>
</html>

should become

<html><head><title>page title</title></head><body>info!<!-- my comment --></body></html>

ideally, also comments and other shenanigans are removed, so ideally it would look like this

<html><head><title>page title</title></head><body>info!</body></html>

again, just to avoid having mod_deflate or gzip discussions again: i know that such things as gzip compressors exists. i am specifically searching for a way to text-filter with apache or rails (rack).

thanks for any pointers!

I've been thinking about this myself - removing all white space between tags and perhaps replacing the white space in the body with — bodacious, Jun 17 '11 at 08:14
i think you need to write your own middleware to strip out the contents with gem 'nokogiri' and send the response back. — Chamnap, Nov 20 '11 at 17:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '11 at 22:06

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This may not be feasible, but how about a deployment task that "cleans" all your templates?

answered Jan 27 '11 at 22:06

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thanks for the fast answer. unfortunately, this is not what i am searching for. i would prefer to keep my code readable, but the output compressed. but thanks for the pointer. – z3cko Jan 27 '11 at 22:40

html text output compression from rails (or apache/passenger)

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