I am working on a rails/angular application where all of the front end is angular and the angular controllers call rails controller actions. The idea is to be able to include this application on third party web sites, not necessarily ours. So, what I'm trying to do is have a script tag pointing to a rails controller action which returns all of the scripts concatenated that are in the application.js file. I have the following file in my public directory...
<html> <%= stylesheet_link_tag "api", media: "all" %> <body> <div id="content" ng-app="board"><ng-view></ng-view></div> <script src="<%= url_for :controller => 'api', :action => 'board' %>?api_key=test123abc"></script> </body> </html>
And then in my controller, I have this action.
def board api_key = params[:api_key] board = nil unless api_key.nil? board = Board.where('api_key=? and active=?', api_key, true) end respond_to do |format| if !board.any? format.js { render inline: 'invalid call', status: 403 } else cookies[:board_id] = board.first().id format.js end end end
So, I have successfully returned the board.js.erb file associated with this action, but instead I want to return the concatenated and minified scripts from application.js. My understanding of the asset pipeline is that when pushed to production, rails will already concat and minify the application.js files into one js file. But how can I do something like that directly from the controller action? Thanks.