title: What is the proper way to link big template assets into rails erb files?
body: <p>I am developing a rails application starting from <a href="http://themeforest.net/item/webarch-responsive-admin-dashboard-template/full_screen_preview/6157416">webarch template</a>. I know that adding the whole assets folder in the public/ folder will link the assets with my views, but it would not be taking advantage of the assets pipeline functions. The template has a lot of plugins and different options and one generally does not use all of it. The assets folder's size is 30MB.</p>
  
  <p>I though about putting it inside vendor/assets and using it with the asset pipeline but this generates two problems:</p>
  
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  <li>I would be serving 30MB of minified code and using a small percentage of it in my app.</li>
  <li>I would have to manually rewrite the whole assets folder to use links the way asset pipeline wants it (<code>javascript_include_tag "file"</code> to serve file.js). Of course, I would do this via a script but it still seems like a problem someone should have encountered first. </li>
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  <p>Since neither vendor/assets and public/ folders seem to be a proper location for these files I would like a better option (or a way to make the later options work better).</p>