# Rails Response and Assets Compression on Heroku

DevFeed: [Rails Response and Assets Compression on Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/rails-response-and-assets-compression-on-heroku-20067.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://jollygoodcode.com/blog/2015/10/20/rails-response-and-assets-compression-on-heroku.html>)

Published: 2015-10-20T09:41:41Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Jolly Good Code](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jolly-good-code.md>)

Topics: [Rails](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rails.md>), [Compression](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compression.md>), [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>)

Tags: [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku.md>), [rails](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rails.md>)

## AI overview

A brief tutorial about compressing Rails responses and assets on Heroku when certain web server settings, such as gzip, cannot be configured directly.

## Source excerpt

@Heroku is awesome but we are not able to configure certain web server settings like gzip. However, it's still possible to compress Rails response and assets on Heroku.