heroku_rails_deflate

This gem is designed for use by Rails applications running on Heroku. For others, the better approach is to use a frontend server such as nginx or Apache. However, the Heroku Cedar stack is no longer fronted by a file server, and there is no automatic provision for gzipping responses. This gem activates Rack::Deflate for all requests. In addition, we serve up the gzipped versions of our precompiled assets, taking advantage of the higher compression ratio used during precompilation, and reducing