using jquery in rails3

Question

I have some questions on jquery in rails3. If I put a function like this in my application.js. Is it appropriate to put my JS in there rather than in my views?

$(function())
{
$("alert").onclick(function());
....
});

How do I call it within a view? Doesnt the function need an identifier or name? Is link_to_function a good way?

Answer 1

Proper way of doing it:

$(function()
{
  $(".alert").click(function( .... ));
  ....
});

Don't put this in your views. Just add to to application.js

This attaches a click handler to your links with the class alert. Function will be called automatically when the click event fires (when you click the link).