I think the assumption is that everyone is using some sort of asset packager/JS compiler at this point. I'm not smart enough to hold an opinion whether or not t

I think the assumption is that everyone is using some sort of asset packager/JS compiler at this point. I'm not smart enough to hold an opinion whether or not this is a "good idea™", but I can tell you that it's the general expectation. We use Capistrano to deploy our app, so packaging assets on the way to the server is as simple as an additional deploy task for the production environments. We have a task named precache_assets that uses Jammit [1] to compile assets based on the Jammit settings (stored in a yml file, imagine that). 1 - http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/ http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/