# jquery-rails-cdn

Add CDN support to 

* [jquery-rails](https://github.com/rails/jquery-rails).

Serving javascripts and stylesheets from a publicly available [CDN](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Delivery_Network) has clear benefits:

* **Speed**: Users will be able to download jQuery and others from the closest physical location.
* **Caching**: CDN is used so widely that potentially your users may not need to download jQuery and others at all.
* **Parallelism**: Browsers have a limitation on how many connections can be made to a single host. Using CDN for jQuery offloads a big one.

## Features

This gem offers the following features:

* Supports multiple CDN. (Google, Microsoft and jquery.com)
* jQuery and jQuery-UI version is automatically detected via jquery-rails.
* Automatically fallback to jquery-rails' bundled jQuery when:
  * You're on a development environment so that you can work offline.
  * The CDN is down or unavailable.

On top of that, if you're using asset pipeline, you may have noticed that the major chunks of the code in `application.js` is jQuery. Implications of externalizing jQuery from `application.js` are:

* Updating your js code won't evict the entire cache in browsers - your code changes more often than jQuery upgrades, right?
* `rake assets:precompile` takes less peak memory usage.

Changelog:

* v0.3.2: Support using minimized libraries.
* v0.3.1: Fix packaging bug.
* v0.3.0: Microsoft and Yandex are now always scheme-less. (Thanks to @atipugin)
* v0.2.2: Remove Bootstrap and Angular.js to their own rails engine.
* v0.2.1: Add Angular.js
* v0.2.0: Update to match original codes and update bootstrap to 2.1.0
* v0.1.2: Added bootstrap.
* v0.1.1: Added jQuery-UI
* v0.1.0: Added `:google_schemeless` for sites that support both ssl / non-ssl
* v0.0.1: Initial release

## Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

```ruby
gem 'jquery-rails-cdn-yjchen'
```

## Usage

This gem adds these methods to generate a script tag to the jQuery on a CDN of your preference:
`jquery_include_tag` and `jquery_url`
`jquery_ui_include_tag` and `jquery_ui_url`

If you're using asset pipeline with Rails 3.1+, first remove `//= require jquery` and `//= require jquery-ui` from `application.js`.

Then in layout:

```ruby
= jquery_include_tag :google
= jquery_ui_include_tag :google
= javascript_include_tag 'application'
```

Note that valid CDN symbols for jQuery and jQuery-UI are:

```ruby
:google
:microsoft
:jquery
:yandex
```

Note that valid CDN symbols for bootstrap are:

```ruby
:default
```

It will generate the following for jQuery and similarly for jQuery-UI on production:

```html
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
window.jQuery || document.write(unescape('%3Cscript src="/assets/jquery-86b29a215ef746103e2469f095a4df9e.js" type="text/javascript">%3C/script>'))
//]]>
</script>
```

on development:

```html
<script src="/assets/jquery.js?body=1" type="text/javascript"></script>
```

If you want to check the production URL, you can pass `:force => true` as an option.

```ruby
jquery_include_tag :google, :force => true
```

To fallback to rails assets when CDN is not available, add `jquery.js` and `jquery-ui.js` in `config/environments/production.rb`

```ruby
config.assets.precompile += %w( jquery.js jquery-ui.js )
```

## Options

Set :compressed to use minimized library locally like this:

    = jquery_include_tag :default, :compressed => true

Remember to change the assets name in confign/environments/production.rb:

    config.assets.precompile += %w( jquery.min.js)

## Clarification
[jquery-rails-cdn](https://github.com/kenn/jquery-rails-cdn) supports jQuery from jquery-rails gem, but [not jQuery UI](https://github.com/kenn/jquery-rails-cdn/issues/11) in the same gem. [jquery-ui-rails-cdn](https://github.com/styx/jquery-ui-rails-cdn) supports jQuery UI from jquery-ui-rails gem. This one supports both jQuery and jQuery UI from jquery-rails gem.