Question

Context

I have a Rails 3 app I’m working on and have the ‘jquery-rails’ gem installed and

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require_tree .

in my app/assets/javascripts/application.js file.

Alerts and coffeescript work ok IF they are base level items.

I’ve put them into app/assets/javascripts/application.js directly, app/assets/javascripts/pages.js and tried it as a coffeescript version in app/assets/javascripts/pages.js.coffee (just changed the file name)

As soon as I put them in something like:

$(document).ready(function(){
alert('works');
});

or (for coffeescript)

jQuery ->
  alert "hi"

It will not fire at all.

I’ve also tried including the jquery file in the application layout but same problems.

Question

Is there a different syntax for declaring jQuery functions within rails?
Does anyone have any ideas what could be going wrong?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

I think coffee script does not work because it should be in file with appropriate extension.