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Ken Joyner
Ken Joyner

Reputation: 921

How to make controller/view specific Javascript work in a Rails 3.1 production environment

I am trying to create view/controller specific Javascript in Rails 3.1. I have followed the method from Rails 3.1 asset pipeline: how to load controller-specific scripts? and http://tech.thereq.com/post/10754558724/the-rails-3-1-asset-pipeline-in-the-real-world-jquery.

This works great in my development environment. However, it fails in my production environment. I get the message, ActionView::Template::Error (users.js isn't precompiled).

My user.js.coffee file inside the .../app/assets/javascript directory contains

//= require i18n/grid.locale-en
//= require jquery.jqGrid.min    
//
//= require grid_object.js

My index.html.haml file inside .../app/views/users contains

- javascript 'users'
...

My application_helper contains

def javascript(*files)
  content_for(:head) { javascript_include_tag(*files) }
end

My application layout file contains

%= yield(:head) %>

Lastly, my application.js file inside .../app/assets/javascript contains

//= require jquery
//= require jquery-ui

What am I missing?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 689

Answers (1)

Ken Joyner
Ken Joyner

Reputation: 921

I decided to use a postfix (i.e. '_pc') for all my controller/view specific javascript that needed to be pre-compiled. The required changes are:

Inside my view, I used:

- javascript require 'users_pc'

I renamed my users.js.coffee file to users_pc.js.coffee

Lastly, I updated my .../config/environments/production.rb file to contain

- config.assets.precompile << '*_pc.js'

Upvotes: 1

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