Provides the ability to skip minification of some JS assets.

lib/tasks/assets.rake

@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ task 'assets:precompile' => 'assets:precompile:before' do
   if $node_uglify
     puts "Compressing Javascript and Generating Source Maps"
     manifest = Sprockets::Manifest.new(assets_path)
+
+    to_skip = Rails.configuration.assets.skip_minification || []
     manifest.files
             .select{|k,v| k =~ /\.js$/}
             .each do |file, info|
@@ -148,14 +150,17 @@ task 'assets:precompile' => 'assets:precompile:before' do
           STDERR.puts "Skipping: #{file} already compressed"
         else
           STDERR.puts "Compressing: #{file}"
-          FileUtils.mv(path, _path)
-          compress(_file,file)
+
+          # We can specify some files to never minify
+          unless to_skip.include?(info['logical_path'])
+            FileUtils.mv(path, _path)
+            compress(_file,file)
+          end
 
           info["size"] = File.size(path)
           info["mtime"] = File.mtime(path).iso8601
           gzip(path)
         end
-
     end
 
     # protected