Rails - Nov 2011 - I've got some "what the heck?" questions regarding the asset pipeline... (like why does it blow the entire assets dir away?)

Hi -

I''ve got a couple of questions about the asset pipeline that
I''m not seeing answered in the guides or blogs...

First... "rake assets:clean" simply blows away public/assets in
it''s entirety.  I suppose this is okay as long as you never ever ever
put anything else in there, but in my trial case I have paperclip also dumping
it''s files into public/assets.  True this is a hold over from an
earlier version, but I''ll admit I was surprised when assets:clean wiped
out files that aren''t part of any asset pipeline.  It seems like this
is a bug and that assets:clean should check the manifest.yml file and only
remove files listed there, but maybe I''m missing something.  Maybe
there should just be a gigantic warning in the docs saying "don''t
put files into assets".

Would love to get some feedback on what other people think about this?

Second... naming conflicts.  Given app/assets/foo/rails.png and
app/assets/bar/rails.png then public/assets/rails.png will always be the one
from ''foo''.  This irks me for some reason.  The above is
contrived, but I could see tossing some jQuery plugin code in there (some
lightbox one for example) and out of pure bad luck ending up with a conflict.

So... should I simply never do this?  Or if I do, should I also go through and
tweak the urls that jquery plugin is going to use? Or?

Appreciate any insights people have gleaned who''ve been using 3.1
longer than I have.  I probably just need to shift my thinking, but at first
glance I''m unsettled.

Thanks!

-philip

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