What is the name of that gem?

rubyonrails-talk
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I am having a very hard time googling for this. It’s a gem you add to your rails application, and it allows you to then request Node modules as if they were gems, and get them added to the asset pipeline. It’s a combination of a gem and a packaging service that wraps (maybe auto-wraps) the official NPM modules as gems, and makes them discoverable and installable without a lot of process or drama.

Can anyone remind me of the name of this gem/service?

Walter

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this ?

https://github.com/endenwer/npm-rails

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or this?

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Nope, neither of those. I recall that you would just be able to add lines to the Gemfile for each npm package, and they would be auto-loaded into the application.js.

Walter

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I found https://github.com/endenwer/npm-rails but it uses a separate file, not Gemfile.

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Are you thinking of https://rails-assets.org/#/

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Someone reminded me off-list that I was thinking of https://rails-assets.org, which is for Bower, not NPM. Lovely tooling, gone too soon.

Walter

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These problems are largely solved by webpacker now in Rails. Just add npm packages to your package.json (just as easy as adding to a Gemfile) and it works great with the asset pipeline.

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You can use just Yarn without webpacker too.