I am creating a rails engine inside a rails app. I have a test.js file in rails app and I want to include this file in my rails engine's application.js file.
My engine is in vendor/engines folder.
How can I include wrapper(main) app's assets file into engine?
I am new for rails engine. If I miss something please let me know.
If I am getting you right then you want some DRY code for using same js file in different places.
Rails starts looking from the root directory. So you just need to require the js file same as you did in application.js.
For example
//= require test
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I would like to include PIE.htc in my Rails application to make CSS3 easier for IE. I can't seem to figure out how to include the PIE.htc file.
I tried to include PIE.htc in my assets folder as well as assets/stylesheets folder, but I no routes matching error.
How do I include PIE.htc with rails asset pipeline?
Try the solution in this post: Using PIE.htc in rails
Basically, it should be:
behavior: url(/assets/PIE.htc);
Also, if you want to be completely sure that the PIE.htc file is being loaded, open it and add an alert as so:
<script type="text/javascript">
alert("PIE works);
If the file if being loaded, a popup should appear showing the message.
Many jQuery plugins have the following directory structures:
/<plugin name>
../css
../images
../js
The CSS files usually have relative links to the images in them. What I want to do is include these plugins in the Rails Way under the Asset Pipeline, and hopefully that doesn't involve having to renamed the file references to remove the relative links. Is there such a Rails Way?
Could it also be that it's overkill to include an already-minified jQuery plugin in the Asset Pipeline?
You should try to add your assets to the load path which is the recommended way, as far as I know. If the application you're running has the assets-pipeline activated, it should find your assets after expanding the path in your application.rb
config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("plugins/plugin_name/assets/")
Not shure, if this is what you asked for but if not, you should check: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html#asset-organization
Remeber to restart your server
I had the same issue and also tried to find "the Rails way" to do this. And this is what I ended up with at the end of the day:
As Rob already mentioned:
vendor/assets is for assets that are owned by outside entities, such as code for JavaScript plugins and CSS frameworks.
Source: 2.1 Asset Organization
Lets take a practical example: using the jquery_datepicker gem (Note: we had to use a workaround because of this issue: bundle pack does not work with git sources).
1) Installing the gem (pretty straighforward):
cd vendor/gems
git clone https://github.com/albertopq/jquery_datepicker.git
2) Add this to your Gemfile
gem 'jquery_datepicker', :path => 'vendor/gems/jquery_datepicker'
3) Install a jquery-ui theme
From ThemeRoller select a theme, check Datepicker and Slider
and the jQUery version
Download and extract the content of the package
CSS/images from the css/theme-name folder move them:
jquery-ui-1.8.xx.custom.css to app/vendor/stylesheets/
the images folder to app/vendor/images/ (yes, move the entire folder images so you end up with something like this app/vendor/images/images/ui-icons_256x240.png
i18n from the development-bundle/ui/i18n folder (optional) move them to:
Create a folder i18n under app/vendor/javascripts/
move jquery.ui.datepicker-xx.js to this folder app/vendor/javascripts/i18n/
make sure the i18n folder is loaded so include in application.js
//= require_directory ./i18n
vendor/assets is loaded automatically AFAIK so you don't have to include the path in the asset pipeline.
I'd like to see how others are approaching this, it's a very good question.
I think the reason you haven't received an answer is because it's kind of unclear what you're asking. Are you asking if it's overkill to put your plugins in the asset pipeline? Are you asking if you have to rename file references?
I always put all my jquery plugins in my asset pipeline. Overkill or not, there all in one place and they only get compiled once so even if compiling them takes longer, it doesn't affect my app.
I'm moving an app from Rails 2 to Rails 3. I have a bunch of JavaScript files in the app, most of which are for working with Google Maps. Previously, my JS files were in public/javascripts/*.js. I noticed that they were not being loaded by any of the pages that used javascript_include_tag, which writes a JavaScript tag that tries to load the JS file from /assets/*.js. (e.g. /assets/application.js).
I read that Rails 3 expects JS files to be located in app/assets/javascripts/*.js. So I moved my JS files there, but they still won't be accessible at /assets/application.js, unless I run bundle exec rake assets:precompile first.
I can't have my JS development cycle be:
Make change to JS
Run bundle exec rake assets:precompile
Reload browser
Thats just too long. My question is how can I configure my app so that the development cycle is as follows?
Make change to JS
Reload browser
So far I've tried:
Enabling the line that reads "Bundler.require(:default, :assets,
Rails.env)" in config/application.rb
Setting config.assets.enabled = false (and true) in config/application.rb
Thanks in advance.
The Rails asset pipeline should be used with a manifest file. This allows Rails to concatenate all of your javascript when in production. In order to do this, you should have an application.js file that looks something like.
//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require_tree .
The important part here is the require_tree part. This tells Rails to include all of the other javascript files in the same folder. This means that you want both the manifest version of application.js and all of your custom javascript files to live in app/assets/javascripts.
A good guide for transitioning to the asset pipeline from Rails 2 can be found in this RailsCast: http://railscasts.com/episodes/282-upgrading-to-rails-3-1
recently i have this issues
I change file config/environments/development.rb
config.assets.digest = false
then that working
I upgraded to rails 3.1.3 a few weeks ago, and moved a bunch of stuff around to use backbone.
Mostly, things are going well, but I just realized that the rails-ujs.js file and remotipart.js files are not in the assets directory.
I've looked for them in the old public/javascripts folder, as well as everywhere else, but no luck finding them.
I also can't seem to find the files in the git repos. Is there somewhere to download these files in Javascript? or do they need to be generated by rails? Is there a way to regenerate them?
---------------this could be my error ----------------------------
I just realized that with the assets packed, you can't just open a file from view source, they all show as non-existent.
I think theses files lived in the rails ujs plugins in asset directory. so you need to add it to your Gemfile and the asset pipeline should see them automaticaly.
all files here https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/tree/master/src are available to include in your js file with
//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
see plugin readme for more informations
You need to include this in your Gemfile:
gem 'jquery-rails'
That is the official plugin for this code.
Run bundle install.
Then you add the lines:
//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
to you application.js file.
I am trying to put some external images (used by a jQuery plugin) to vendor/assets/images in my Rails 3.1 app. Problem is that when I try something like:
<%= image_tag "ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png" %>
I get an error:
No route matches [GET] "/assets/ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png"
I checked my Rails.application.config.assets.paths and it list these dirs:
..../app/assets/images
..../app/assets/javascripts
..../app/assets/stylesheets
..../vendor/assets/images
..../vendor/assets/stylesheets
..../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180#mygems/gems/jquery-rails-1.0.9/vendor/assets/javascripts
As you can see /vendor/assets/images is listed there. If I put my image to app/assets/images everything works.
I thought that new asset pipeline was supposed to go through all assets dirs and serve requested file wherever it finds it.
Does anyone knows what's the problem here?
I had to restart my rails server after creating the vendor/assets/images directory. Before this, I was seeing the same error as you ("No route matches [GET]").
My guess is that the rails server does not check these directories if they did not exist when it was first started. When you open a rails console to diagnose the issue, you get a new instance of rails which knows about the directory, which only adds to the confusion.
If you are using a jQuery UI Theme Roller theme then the problem might be that in the jquery-ui css file the images are referenced within a sub folder 'images'.
I.e. you either have to put your images in a folder './app/assets/images/images' or you have to edit the jquery-ui css file and remove the 'images/' folder prefix.
The asset pipeline is described in this rails guide by Ryan Bigg (draft status at the moment).
http://ryanbigg.com/guides/asset_pipeline.html and http://ryanbigg.com/2011/06/sprocket-asset-tags-internals/ for the references.
According to this, your example should work.
Extract:
Assets can be placed inside an application in one of three locations: app/assets, lib/assets or vendor/assets.
app/assets is for assets that are owned by the application, such as custom images, javascript files or stylesheets.
lib/assets is for your own libraries’ code that doesn’t really fit into the scope of the application or those libraries which are shared across applications.
vendor/assets is for assets that are owned by outside entities, such as code for JavaScript plugins.
Any subdirectory that exists within these three locations will be added to the search path for Sprockets (visible by calling Rails.application.config.assets.paths in a console). When an asset is requested, these paths will be looked through to see if they contain an asset matching the name specified. Once an asset has been found, it’s processed by Sprockets and then served up.
I have tested with an example in my app and the same syntax as yours works. Maybe you have a typo in the name of your asset.
For Martin: search path for Sprockets is visible by calling Rails.application.config.assets.paths in a console.
Maybe you should create another folder in /assets/images. You make a name 'images' and then you just copy all jquery-ui image and paste on folder 'images' that you create before. Hopefully this will help you.