Speed up assets:precompile with Rails 3.1/3.2 Capistrano deployment
The idea is that if you don't change your assets you don't need to recompile them each time:
This is the solution that Ben Curtis propose for a deployment with git:
namespace :deploy do namespace :assets do task :precompile, :roles => :web, :except => { :no_release => true } do from = source.next_revision(current_revision) if releases.length <= 1 || capture("cd #{latest_release} && #{source.local.log(from)} vendor/assets/ app/assets/ | wc -l").to_i > 0 run %Q{cd #{latest_release} && #{rake} RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} #{asset_env} assets:precompile} else logger.info "Skipping asset pre-compilation because there were no asset changes" end end end end
Here is another approach based on asset age (https://gist.github.com/2784462) :
set :max_asset_age, 2 ## Set asset age in minutes to test modified date against.after "deploy:finalize_update", "deploy:assets:determine_modified_assets", "deploy:assets:conditionally_precompile"namespace :deploy do namespace :assets do desc "Figure out modified assets." task :determine_modified_assets, :roles => assets_role, :except => { :no_release => true } do set :updated_assets, capture("find #{latest_release}/app/assets -type d -name .git -prune -o -mmin -#{max_asset_age} -type f -print", :except => { :no_release => true }).split end desc "Remove callback for asset precompiling unless assets were updated in most recent git commit." task :conditionally_precompile, :roles => assets_role, :except => { :no_release => true } do if(updated_assets.empty?) callback = callbacks[:after].find{|c| c.source == "deploy:assets:precompile" } callbacks[:after].delete(callback) logger.info("Skipping asset precompiling, no updated assets.") else logger.info("#{updated_assets.length} updated assets. Will precompile.") end end endend
If you prefer to precompile your assets locally you can use this task:
namespace :deploy do namespace :assets do desc 'Run the precompile task locally and rsync with shared' task :precompile, :roles => :web, :except => { :no_release => true } do from = source.next_revision(current_revision) if releases.length <= 1 || capture("cd #{latest_release} && #{source.local.log(from)} vendor/assets/ app/assets/ | wc -l").to_i > 0 %x{bundle exec rake assets:precompile} %x{rsync --recursive --times --rsh=ssh --compress --human-readable --progress public/assets #{user}@#{host}:#{shared_path}} %x{bundle exec rake assets:clean} else logger.info 'Skipping asset pre-compilation because there were no asset changes' end end endend
Another interesting approach can be that of using a git hook.For example you can add this code to .git/hooks/pre-commit
which checks if there are any differences in the assets files and eventually precompiles them and add them to the current commit.
#!/bin/bash# source rvm and .rvmrc if present[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"[ -s "$PWD/.rvmrc" ] && . "$PWD/.rvmrc"# precompile assets if any have been updatedif git diff-index --name-only HEAD | egrep '^app/assets' >/dev/null ; then echo 'Precompiling assets...' rake assets:precompile:all RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_GROUPS=assets git add public/assets/*fi
If you decide to use this approach you would probably need to change your config/environments/development.rb
adding:
config.assets.prefix = '/assets_dev'
So that while in development you won't serve the precompiled assets.
I've just written a gem to solve this problem inside Rails, called turbo-sprockets-rails3. It speeds up your assets:precompile
by only recompiling changed files, and only compiling once to generate all assets. It works out of the box for Capistrano, since your assets directory is shared between releases.
This is much more bulletproof than the solutions that use git log
, since my patch analyzes the sources of your assets, even if they come from a gem. For example, if you update jquery-rails
, a change will be detected for application.js
, and only application.js
will be recompiled.
Note that I'm also trying to get this patch merged into Rails 4.0.0, and possibly Rails 3.2.9 (see https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails/pull/21). But for now, it would be awesome if you could help me test out the turbo-sprockets-rails3 gem, and let me know if you have any problems.
tommasop's solution doesn't work when enabled cached-copy, my modified version:
task :precompile, :roles => :web, :except => { :no_release => true } do from = source.next_revision(current_revision) if capture("cd #{shared_path}/cached-copy && git diff #{from}.. --stat | grep 'app/assets' | wc -l").to_i > 0 run %Q{cd #{latest_release} && #{rake} RAILS_ENV=#{Rubber.env} #{asset_env} assets:precompile:primary} else logger.info "Skipping asset pre-compilation because there were no asset changes" endend