"Way back in March of '09, the intelligent (and dashing!) Paul Irish laid forth a markup-based means of executing JavaScript on page load."

The asset pipeline has three goals: precompile, concatenate and minify assets into one central path. Or in other words, it takes all of your stylesheets, javascript files, images and any other files you want, joins them together when possible, and places them in the public/assets folder.

Mutes assets pipeline log messages.

Transparent file compilation and dependency management for Node's connect framework in the spirit of the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline.