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(1) Regarding the article: boo f-ing hoo. (2) Why Rails 3.1 actually is blowing it: There is no way to turn off concatenation of js/css files in development! WTF? Have these guys ever developed a client heavy app before? That is a total non-starter. I love how the entire goal was to make js a first class rails citizen but you can only debug these files in firebug as one giant file! What a f-up!

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This has already been solved. Just add ?debug_assets=1 to any url and it'll be rendered with individual include lines instead of concatenation.

We're building client heavy apps, though, and haven't felt a need for it. But now it's there if you need it. Enjoy!

That is great news! Rails 3.1 otherwise has many great features.

However, I'll be honest, I find it completely unbelievable that you don't have a problem debugging in one huge js file. I guess when using coffee script the connection between what you are debugging and what you are editing is already completely severed so maybe at that point it doesn't matter anymore.

You have very funny definition of "solve". In my day we would have called that a workaround.

> There is no way to turn off concatenation of js/css files in development!

Remove these lines:

   *= require_self
   *= require_tree .

There's another option for really client-side heavy applications -- use better packager; however, it requires some effort to maintain.

I find that I like debugging the concatenated version of javascript better. I end up using search a lot more in chrome development tools but I actually get to the place in the code I want to get to faster with one file and search.

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