Pipeline

Tower has a built-in asset compilation and deployment pipeline. The config/assets.coffee manifest defines how assets are bundled.

• Asset Manifest
• Watchfile

Tasks

cake assets:bundle
cake assets:upload # cake assets:upload:s3
cake assets:stats

assets:bundle

Bundles all the assets

Asset Manifest

module.exports =
  javascripts:
    application: [
      '/app/models/user'
      '/app/models/post'
    ]
    bottom: [
      "/vendor/assets/javascripts/jmd/showdown"
      "/vendor/assets/javascripts/jmd/jquery.markedit"
    ]
    vendor: [
      '/vendor/assets/javascripts/tower'
      '/vendor/assets/javascripts/underscore'
    ]
    development: [
      '/vendor/assets/javascripts/jasmine'
      '/vendor/assets/javascripts/faker'
      '/vendor/assets/javascripts/coffeekup'
    ]

  stylesheets:
    base: [
      "/app/assets/stylesheets/reset"
      "/app/assets/stylesheets/typography"
    ]
    application: [
      "/app/assets/stylesheets/application"
    ]

try
  Tower.assetManifest = JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync('public/assets/manifest.json', 'utf-8'))
catch error
  Tower.assetManifest = {}

Tasks

cake assets:bundle
cake assets:upload

Helpers

html 5
  head
    stylesheets "base"
    stylesheets "vendor"
    stylesheets "application"
    stylesheets "theme"

    javascriptTag "http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/modernizr/modernizr-1.7-development-only.js"
    javascriptTag "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"
    javascriptTag "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.16/jquery-ui.min.js"

    javascripts "vendor"
    javascripts "application"

    if Tower.env == "development"
      javascripts "development"
  body
    h1 "Hello World"

    javascripts "bottom"

Twitter Bootstrap