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# Asset compilation

Asset compilation is the practice of combining assets in one file so that the amount of network requests are greatly reduced to fetch the page.

We are using [grunt](http://gruntjs.com/) to perform javascript compilation and [compass](http://compass-style.org/) for css compilation.

to compile javascript run grunt:

```
grunt
```

to compile css run compass:

```
compass watch .
```

## Deploying assets.

This will be automated with a rake task, however for now it is manual.