# tenex/rails-assets

The solution to assets management in Rails

Repository: https://github.com/tenex/rails-assets
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rails-assets
Homepage: https://rails-assets.org
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-07-29T22:03:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4806, "days_push": 1496, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1620, forks 66 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:12.362563+00:00)

## What it is
A Bundler-to-Bower proxy that converts Bower frontend packages into Ruby gems for use in Rails asset pipelines. It also provides a hosted service at rails-assets.org.

## Use cases
- manage frontend assets in Rails via Bundler
- convert Bower packages into Ruby gems
- include jQuery and other JS libraries in Rails asset pipeline
- pin frontend library versions in Gemfile

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Rails app already using rails-assets
- you still depend on Bower packages in an older Rails codebase

## When to avoid
- starting a new Rails project (Bower is deprecated)
- modern Rails 7+ apps with import maps or JS bundlers
- projects not using Ruby or Rails

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: package-manager, build-tool, web-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: ruby, cli
- tags: rails, bower, bundler, asset-management, frontend-assets, deprecated-ecosystem, web-server

## Member repositories
- tenex/rails-assets (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:12.362563+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:49:21.513397+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tenex/rails-assets (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:12.362563+00:00, sha 1ebc789c4133)
  - homepage: https://rails-assets.org (fetched 2026-08-29T11:21:55.863860+00:00, sha b7d49ffc50dc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.