CU wrote: > I'm coming from a long period of CakePHP development. One of the more > useful features of that framework was the ability to add any inline > javascript in a view, with dynamic php codeblock-generated output > (variables, framework generated URLs, etc), to a javascript buffer, > and then have CakePHP render it inside an inline script tag just > before the </body>, or, my preferred solution, have CakePHP > automatically condense the buffer and output it to a uniquely- > named .js file on the filesystem. This file could then obviously be > cached by the browser, and was recreated whenever the structure of the > view/javascript changed. > > Is there a similar feature in Rails, or a Gem that offers this > functionality?
Well, there's content_for, for starters. I think Rails provides some other methods for combining JS, but I'm not certain. > Otherwise, what would be the best practice in Rails for > unavoidable inline javascript output? Just don't write inline JS to start with! Rails 3 is more helpful in this respect than Rails 2, or so I'm told. > > Many thanks Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
