ndbroadbent/turbo-sprockets-rails3 — pull request #48 by oggy (2013-01-06 08:05:43+00:00)
Title: Speed up touching, make shell escaping more robust.

1.

Shellwords is part of the ruby stdlib, and built for proper shell escaping.

2.

The touch command can receive multiple files, and can even ignore nonexistent files with the POSIX-compliant -c option. Doing 1000 files per invocation dramatically sped up this phase of precompilation for me. On an app with just under 7k files under public/assets:

Before:

$ bundle exec rake RAILS_ENV=development RAILS_GROUPS=assets assets:precompile
touching (nil): 88.8947s
compiling (nil): 70.7533s
touching (false): 0.0000s
generating (false): 6.5764s

After:

$ bundle exec rake RAILS_ENV=development RAILS_GROUPS=assets assets:precompile
touching (nil): 0.9903s
compiling (nil): 68.2418s
touching (false): 0.0000s
generating (false): 6.4802s