Class YUI::Compressor
In: lib/yui/compressor.rb
Parent: Object

Methods

compress  

Classes and Modules

Class YUI::Compressor::Error
Class YUI::Compressor::OptionError
Class YUI::Compressor::RuntimeError

Constants

VERSION = "0.9.6"

Attributes

options  [R] 

Public Instance methods

Compress a stream or string of code with YUI Compressor. (A stream is any object that responds to read and close like an IO.) If a block is given, you can read the compressed code from the block‘s argument. Otherwise, compress returns a string of compressed code.

Example: Compress CSS

  compressor = YUI::CssCompressor.new
  compressor.compress(<<-END_CSS)
    div.error {
      color: red;
    }
    div.warning {
      display: none;
    }
  END_CSS
  # => "div.error{color:red;}div.warning{display:none;}"

Example: Compress JavaScript

  compressor = YUI::JavaScriptCompressor.new
  compressor.compress('(function () { var foo = {}; foo["bar"] = "baz"; })()')
  # => "(function(){var foo={};foo.bar=\"baz\"})();"

Example: Compress and gzip a file on disk

  File.open("my.js", "r") do |source|
    Zlib::GzipWriter.open("my.js.gz", "w") do |gzip|
      compressor.compress(source) do |compressed|
        while buffer = compressed.read(4096)
          gzip.write(buffer)
        end
      end
    end
  end

[Validate]