Build for Rails (using Ember-CLI / EmberAppKit)

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I’m using Ember-CLI to build an Ember app, interacting with a Rails API.

The Ember app will be packaged into PhoneGap (the main reason I am building outside of Rails), which works fine.

I would also like to use the application for my mobile site – which needs to run off of a Rails server. I was thinking of a Grunt task to build for Rails, to send the /dist folder to my Rails repo.

Has anyone done anything similar to this?

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I used this Rakefile gist to do something similar earlier today. The task runs ember build and copies the necessary layout/js/css files to the Rails asset pipeline.

It’s pretty basic (only copies the single js/css files, not any other assets like images/fonts/etc.) but is probably a good jumping-off point.

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Notes taken from rwjblue:

  • single repo with a ‘backend’ folder and a ‘frontend’ folder
  • use this rake task to start everything properly
  • deployment depends on the app. It is as simple as copying the ember-cli dist/ dir into public/assets on rails if that is what you want

Joe Fiorini on Ember CLI

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Here is another link to Joe Fiorini on Ember CLI the above one seems to be dead, will be interested to hear how the phonegap/cordova integration goes, I’m looking to do the same with the setup listed above in the not too distant future…

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Also @nick there is a good blog series that Brian Cardella is writing from Dockyard Building an Ember App with Rails that I have been following along to get basic setup down, looks like its essentially the explanation of the above rake task / 2 seperate folder setup… hope it helps :slight_smile:

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Another helpful ember-cli-rails tool via Jason Madsen: GitHub - knomedia/ember-cli-rails: template and build script for using ember-cli and rails together

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I spent a good deal of time migrating my ember/rails app away from using the asset pipeline to ember-cli with a proxy for the rails api. For development I am finding it to be much faster iterating while building new features.

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How do you find development of CSS especially those involving images and with fingerprinting. In Rails, the CSS will be in ERB template and using the asset_path, I am curious how you solve that issue.