If you aren't using gzip, you're crazy. But gzipping is one small piece of the puzzle. Even the simplest web application would benefit from the concatenation an

If you aren't using gzip, you're crazy. But gzipping is one small piece of the puzzle. Even the simplest web application would benefit from the concatenation and minification of its scripts. Plus, as it turns out, those aren't the only things that real apps need to do. In Cappuccino, we have a whole suite of tools that operate on applications, and Jake is the conductor. Our preprocessor gets run ahead of time before deploying for performance, a process easily automated with Jake. Images get base64'd and combined into a single file to improve download speed and perceived performance, again completely automated with Jake. We have a tool to strip dead code that Jake knows how to run, and a tool that combines apps into a single file as well. Our jake scripts handle our deployment process too, creating zip files of everything that's relevant and preparing them for upload to our servers, incrementing version numbers automatically, etc. Turns out automation is important.