How to enable compression in Ruby on Rails?

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I posted a similar question here

Serving Compressed Assets in Heroku with Rack-Zippy

but decided to give up on that service, since I couldn't get it to work.

I ran PageSpeed Insights on my website to determine the speed of my website.

The most important suggestion I received was to Enable Compression.

Compressing resources with gzip or deflate can reduce the number of bytes sent over the network.
Enable compression for the following resources to reduce their transfer size by 191.2KiB 
(74% reduction).

I've followed the instructions on this website

http://ift.tt/VuYWX4

and it says to consult the documentation for your web server on how to enable compression:

I've used this website to find out my web server

http://ift.tt/1hCl4IQ

It turns out that my web server is WEBrick.

The PageSpeed Insights Page only lists the following 3 servers

Apache: Use mod_deflate
Nginx: Use ngx_http_gzip_module
IIS: Configure HTTP Compression

I've searched for documentation on gzip compression for WEBrick servers but couldn't find anything.

I've searched for how to enable compression in Rails and couldn't find anything. That's why I'm asking here.

I've tried using Rack Zippy but gave up on it.

Right now, I don't even know where to begin. My first step, is finding out what I should do.

I have officially fried my brain at this point.

asked 37 secs ago

DarkMouse

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How to enable compression in Ruby on Rails?