Eliminate unnecessary dependencies about chosen-rails

[jmcnevin]

+1

The compass gem in particular seems like a giant dependency to require for this.

[derekprior]

The only issue I can find with this is that the styles for chosen include reference to some sprite images. If the compiled CSS were to be used, the images would be statically named in the CSS. The asset pipeline is going to pre-process those images and give them a digested name, so the CSS won't find them.

Is that it? If so, any ideas on what we can do about that?

[tsechingho]

@derekprior you are right.
The rails asset pipeline may change the path of other assets, like fonts, videos, audios, and images mostly.

The other reason is that coffeescript and sass will help us to customize the components of assets gem easier if the source code are separate into several files. I have to customize the coffeescript part for my need.

And compass is not all about these stuff.

Yes, chosen-rails is not using all these benefits. No extra dependencies are required if you use the default path of assets. But I prefer to keep these possibilities to happen if I only need to do small effort.

So, for people do not want the heavy dependencies, I suggest they add (minimized) js, css and images to their vender/assets of their rails project directly from Chosen. There still some ways to deal with the path of assets..

Or fork this project, or create a new the other one. It's all free under MIT license. :)