Rails Assets: - creates manifest files for each component so you can just "require jquery" instead "require jquery/dist/jquery" - splits assets in four catego

Rails Assets: - creates manifest files for each component so you can just "require jquery" instead "require jquery/dist/jquery" - splits assets in four categories: javascripts, stylesheets, images, fonts, so you can use sprockets helpers without a problem - replaces relative urls in stylesheets with image-url font-url etc., so assets work out of the box - converts .css files to .scss so you can get advantage of @import in SASS files - you get assets locking with Gemfile.lock, so you can be sure each deploy will look the same. It's not possible yet with bower. And few other sprockets integrations. Unfortunately it's centralized solution but we're working on that.