i have a quite strange request: i want to "compress" all the output from a rails app; with this i do not mean gzip or any similar compression, i mean to reformat the whole output (preferably with apache/passenger but can also be a rack middleware or rails plugin)
anyone knows if something like this exists? any apache module out there? if not, what would be a good way to implement something like this?
just to be more clear what i want:
<html>
<head>
<title>page title</title>
</head>
<body>
info!
<!-- my comment -->
</body>
</html>
should become
<html><head><title>page title</title></head><body>info!<!-- my comment --></body></html>
ideally, also comments and other shenanigans are removed, so ideally it would look like this
<html><head><title>page title</title></head><body>info!</body></html>
again, just to avoid having mod_deflate or gzip discussions again: i know that such things as gzip compressors exists. i am specifically searching for a way to text-filter with apache or rails (rack).
thanks for any pointers!
This may not be feasible, but how about a deployment task that "cleans" all your templates?