You're right that they're not downloadable. They're still used in the process 
of generating assets that are downloadable. The ones that are downloadable live 
in public/assets anyway. 


On Wednesday, 4 April 2012 at 4:34 PM, Alexey wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 11:25:26 PM UTC+2, Josh Susser wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Alexey wrote:
> > 
> > > Maybe this was a stupid question and i do not understand what assets 
> > > exactly are.  For me assets were things which are not Ruby code or user 
> > > data, but on which the developer spends a lot of time.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Assets are things that are embedded in a web page and get downloaded by the 
> > browser. This includes images (JPGs, PNGs), javascript files, CSS files, 
> > flash movies, mp3s, etc. Since locales are used only by the server and not 
> > downloaded by the browser, they are server configuration, not assets.
> > 
> > --
> > Josh Susser
> > http://blog.hasmanythrough.com
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Josh, thanks for the explanation.  However, i may argue that one can keep 
> SCSS or CoffeeScript in assets, and those are not downloaded, only generated 
> CSS and JavaScript are.  YAML files of localizations are not downloaded, but 
> the localized strings for the current page are. 
> 
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