1. Welcome
  2. Getting Started [+/-]
    1. Installing from RubyGems
    2. Installing from GitHub.com
    3. Installing with Sake
  3. The Basics [+/-]
    1. Hello World
      1. Application Generation Options
    2. Paths
    3. Environments
    4. Rake
  4. Configuration [+/-]
    1. Configatron
    2. Initializers
      1. Gems
      2. Mime-Types
  5. Routing [+/-]
    1. Default Routes
    2. Named Routes
    3. RESTful/Resource Routes
    4. Nested Resource Routes
    5. Regex Routes
    6. Wildcard Routes
    7. Blocks in Routes
    8. Redirecting
    9. Error Handling
    10. Deferred? Routes
    11. Misc. Routing
  6. Controllers [+/-]
    1. Actions
    2. Headers/Status
    3. Handling Content Types
    4. Filters
    5. Helpers
    6. Layouts
    7. Tell Messaging
    8. Redirecting
    9. Rendering
      1. Engines
        1. Erubis
        2. XML Builder
        3. Extending
          1. Case Study: PDF Writer
      2. Types
        1. :action
        2. :text
        3. :inline
        4. :xml
        5. :url
        6. :partial
        7. :template
        8. :public
        9. Extending
          1. Case Study: PDF Writer
  7. Views [+/-]
    1. Helpers
    2. Layouts
    3. Assets Host
    4. Assets Management
    5. Form Builders
  8. Sessions [+/-]
    1. Session Store API
  9. Request/Response [+/-]
    1. Cookies
  10. Testing [+/-]
    1. RSpec
    2. Test::Unit::TestCase
  11. Porlets [+/-]
    1. Developing
    2. Testing
    3. Packaging
    4. Using
  12. Plugins [+/-]
    1. Extending
      1. Case Study: PDF Writer
  13. Deploying [+/-]
    1. Thin
    2. Passenger (mod_rails)
    3. Joyent Accelerator
  14. Mack More [+/-]
    1. mack-active_record
    2. mack-asset_packager
    3. mack-caching
    4. mack-data_factory
    5. mack-data_mapper
    6. mack-distributed
    7. mack-encryption
    8. mack-facets
    9. mack-haml
    10. mack-javascript
    11. mack-localization
    12. mack-markaby
    13. mack-notifier
    14. mack-orm
    15. mack-pdf_writer
  15. Rails to Mack Cheat Sheet
  16. Contributing
  17. APIs [+/-]

Asset Host

You can define an asset host for your application. By default, the application will search the assets in the public folder (e.g. stylesheets will be loaded from public/stylesheets folder), but when an asset host is defined, then stylesheets, images, and javascripts will be loaded from that location instead.

To define an asset host, you will need to set configatron.mack.assets.hosts in your configuration file. The framework will then use that value to determine where to load the assets.

The following are all the types of value supported by the asset host configuration:

This guide was written for Mack version 0.8.3.1