Garbage Burrito

UPDATE:  I've refactored this into a Plugin.

I've been pretty happy with TinyMCE, especially after I discovered the Word Pasting plugin.  The one thing that has bothered me is how it loads JavaScript files for all the plugins and their languages.  Every time it loads I notice it chugging along.  Even if the pipe is fast it still takes time for each request.

They already have solved this problem, however it takes some serverside magic.  I did some searching and didn't find any solutions for this in Ruby.  After putting it off for awhile, I finally decided to try it myself.  

I used the PHP and JSP scripts as examples and pieced it together.  It aggregates all the plugin JavaScript files into one, gzips it if available, and caches the output.  I stole the gzip code from this project .

I have only tested this on my application, so I would appreciate it if some other people would try it out.  Once I get some feedback, I'll release it as a plugin.

To set it up, download this controller and put it into your controllers directory.  After that you need to add the following lines to your routes.rb.

map.connect '/javascripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_gzip.js', :controller => "tiny_mce_gzip" map.connect '/javascripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_gzip_load.js', :controller => "tiny_mce_gzip", :action => 'aggregate'

Then you just need to load the load the new JavaScript instead of the old tiny_mce.js.  

<%= javascript_include_tag("tiny_mce/tiny_mce_gzip") %>
 
This assumes that you have your tiny_mce installed in /javascripts/tiny_mce.  This is necessary to load the images and other js files.  

Have fun, and leave feedback here in the comments.