I think on a even more high level scale that we should start working towards an opinionated rails way of handling Javascript frameworks; whether that is either embracing one of the current ones or creating a new one based on what works best with rails.
The javascipt front end framework is still in it's growing stage, but it does appear that it is the way the web is moving. At a minimum, would be great if as a community we start creating boiler plate with that will allow people to easily integrate the 2 way binding of model data the way that ember/angular do. On Friday, October 31, 2014 12:07:04 PM UTC-5, Brian Underwood wrote: > > I posted an issue about this ( > https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/17457#issuecomment-61292491 ) but > I'll copy/paste here for discussion convenience: > > > I feel like I'm the boy telling the emperor he has no clothes, but here > goes... > > Every large rails project that I've worked on has had it's application > javascript grow and grow because everybody leaves 'require_tree .' in > application.js. Personally I hate it and remove it whenever I can (it's > harder on legacy projects), but we should be loading javascript in a saner, > more modular way. > > Very often I automagically include javascript files for controllers and > actions if they exist. Here's an example of a helper that I've recently > written (it's not neccessarily pretty, but you get the idea: > > def action_and_controller_javascript_include_tag > capture do > concat javascript_include_tag controller_name if > Rails.root.join("app/assets/javascripts/#{controller_name}.coffee").exist? > concat javascript_include_tag "#{controller_name}/#{action_name}" if > Rails.root.join("app/assets/javascripts/#{controller_name}/#{action_name}.coffee").exist? > end > end > > I'd be fine if that were a gem, though rails already generates controller > js files so it might make sense still. > > But seriously, can we please encourage not loading all of the javascript > for the entire application? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
