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msanteler
msanteler

Reputation: 2183

Lightbox/Fancybox for Rails 4

I installed a Fancybox2 gem in my rails app, but it's not working 100% of the time. It seems to be an issue with Turbolinks, as it only works after a refresh, or when a page is visited directly.

I already have my jquery set up using:

$(document).ready(ready);
$(document).on('page:load', ready);

where "ready" is a function, to ensure it works around the Rails 4 turbolinks implementation, but it seems Fancybox has not been updated similarly.

Anyone find any fixes or alternatives out there to get a lightbox working nicely within Rails 4?

I'm thinking there also might be something built into fancybox that I can inside my ready function to re-initialize when a page loads with turbolinks?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1059

Answers (2)

Mario
Mario

Reputation: 2059

It's usually an issue with Turboliknks.

To work around this I just reinitialize lightbox everytime turbolinks reloads the page.

Sample in CoffeeScript:

ready = () ->
  lightbox.init()

$(document).on 'turbolinks:load', ready

Upvotes: 1

msanteler
msanteler

Reputation: 2183

Update – I've gone with foundation, a free framework which works well with rails and includes a modal, as well as many other features

Upvotes: 0

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