On 24 September 2015 at 15:18, Marco Antonio Almeida <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Colin, > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:30 PM Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am having a go, for the first time, at making a gem which is an >> engine. I have some javascript files which I have put in the >> gem/app/assets/javascript. I can access those from the app but only >> if I require them from the apps application.js. So if I have two js >> files in the gem, say f1.js and f2.js, then in the apps application.js >> I have to put >> //= require f1 >> //= require f2 >> >> I have not been able to find a way to avoid having to require them all >> individually. Is this possible? >> > > What I usually do is something like this: > > Let's say that I have an engine called "my_engine", then I would create a > my_engine/app/assets/javascript/index.js which would have the content: > > //= require f1 > //= require f2 > > Then in the host app's application.js you can call > > // require my_engine > > This is actually a very neat trick that Rails have to load files inside a > folder. It will always look for an index.js file first.
Of course! It's obvious when you know how. Thanks Colin > > I hope this helps, > // Marco > >> Colin >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLsaW_Koe9NXxwUaiX7c5Fjep-6JLevzui7qEZECq9qE3A%40mail.gmail.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CACMkcE6W9_WxZ-B7z0trvV53Q2kYh6Uz74qa6p--%3Dr3CXdA1bw%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLsda6D2u4tv15UCy-pGQh78%2BW-k1zsCR76FW_7E_vYJ0Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
