What about CDN? 
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.16/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css

Or is that forbidden now that we have an asset pipeline? :-P

Cheers,
Tim


On Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 23:05, Chris Darroch wrote:

> If you were going to go the route of adding your own sprockets preprocessor, 
> you could do something like:
> 
> * create a new folder for vendor libraries (hmm, where have I seen that one 
> before..)
> * dump jQuery-UI in to its own folder inside there
> * write a preprocessor that treats everything in your new vendor lib folder 
> as isolated and complete, relative to the root of that directory.
> ** parse all the url() things you find and resolve them to relative to the 
> same directory
> 
> or some similar kind of ill-considered pseudocode. 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Ben Taylor <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > After reading around a bit it seems like the "solution" is to do as 
> > recommended. Modify all the URLS. It does seem kind of annoying. Damn you 
> > assets pipeline!
> > 
> > (as seen here: http://babinho.net/2011/10/rails-3-1-jquery-ui/) 
> > 
> >  - Ben
> > 
> > On Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 8:51 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > > Any reason why this solution mentioned on Stack Overflow doesn't work?
> > > 
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6133818/rails-3-1-and-jquery-ui-assets 
> > > 
> > >  - Ben
> > > 
> > > On Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 8:46 PM, Samuel Richardson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Yes? ;)
> > > > 
> > > > Your other option could be to override elements of the CSS by using
> > > > another CSS file
> > > > 
> > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > > 
> > > > On 26/10/2011, at 8:42 PM, Chris Berkhout <[email protected] 
> > > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Because I'd consider it a fork. It means it isn't the same file that
> > > > > is "released" by the jqueryui.com (http://jqueryui.com) website, and 
> > > > > if I want to switch to
> > > > >  a different theme, it's (again) more than just dropping in a 
> > > > > different
> > > > > file.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Am I'm being too pedantic?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Chris
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Samuel Richardson 
> > > > > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > > > Any reason you don't want to modify the jQuery UI stylesheet?
> > > > > > Samuel Richardson
> > > > > > www.richardson.co.nz (http://www.richardson.co.nz) | 0405 472 748
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Chris Berkhout 
> > > > > > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > To clarify, ideally I'd like to:
> > > > > > >  1) use no helpers (so that I don't have to modify the 
> > > > > > > auto-generated
> > > > > > > jquery-ui stylesheet)
> > > > > > > 2) use the assets pipeline (so that the CSS goes into the single
> > > > > > > application.css, and gets minified automatically)
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > > Chris
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Chris Darroch 
> > > > > > > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > Use the image-path() or image-url() sass-rails helpers.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > https://github.com/rails/sass-rails
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > On 26/10/2011, at 6:45 PM, Chris Berkhout 
> > > > > > > > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>
> > > > > > > >  wrote:
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Hi All,
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > I've got a Rails 3.1 app, and I've just started using the 
> > > > > > > > > jQuery UI
> > > > > > > > > plugin's datepicker.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > I'm getting the javascript code out of the jquery-rails gem, 
> > > > > > > > > by adding
> > > > > > > > >  (to app/assets/javascripts/application.js):
> > > > > > > > > //= require jquery-ui.min
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > For the theme/style, I generated one on jqueryui.com 
> > > > > > > > > (http://jqueryui.com), and added the
> > > > > > > > > CSS file here:
> > > > > > > > > app/assets/stylesheets/jquery-ui-datepicker.smoothness.css
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > My problem is with the images.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Putting them under app/assets/stylesheets/images/* worked in
> > > > > > > > > development, but in production (when MD5 hashes get added) it 
> > > > > > > > > doesn't
> > > > > > > > > work.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > With the CSS going into /assets/application.css, it's 
> > > > > > > > > expecting its
> > > > > > > > >  images to be under /assets/images/*.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Is there a way to have the CSS and the images packaged as 
> > > > > > > > > assets
> > > > > > > > > without modifying the CSS to use the asset_path helper?
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > The only solution I can see at the moment is to put CSS and 
> > > > > > > > > images
> > > > > > > > >  under /public and manually link to the stylesheet in my 
> > > > > > > > > application
> > > > > > > > > layout.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > > > > Chris
> > > > > > > > > 
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