From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2011-08-26T01:51:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Conventions for reusable component assets



On Aug 24, 11:48 am, Richard Conroy <richard.con...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Intransition <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What conventions have evolved for placing reusable website assets in a
> > project? Do people just mix in all a  components assets in with the
> > other assets,
>
> >    cp -r foo/assets/images/* mysite/assets/images/
> >    cp -r foo/assets/stylesheets/* mysite/assets/stylesheets/
> >    ...
>
> Is this for content across projects? For example, company logos, flash
> animations?

In my case it's for website libraries, e.g. highlight.js (http://
softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/).

> I have heard of companies making very atomic versions of gems to take DRY
> concepts across projects.
>
> Perhaps it might work well for static assets too.

Actually it looks like I will be doing that too. But it still leaves
the question of where to put files in the end product.