I am authoring an article for Amazon Cloudfront. Are there recommended techniques for working with content delivery networks in Rails?
I have seen and used ActionController::Base.asset_host and am aware of the date parameter that Rails can attach to each static image to reflect its last modified time.
Are there other build techniques and coding techniques to work well with CDNs? For instance, does anyone refer to fixed IDs in code which are replaced during a build with the latest and greatest version of an asset? If so, is this a rake task?
I'll do some Googling, but thought I would ask peers, too.
The article will be based on Rails, so will assist the community at large when published next month.
Martin
