Question

I am using rails and I have lot of javascript functions,I don’t want to put them in application.js. Is it fine to move them to different js files based on the layouts ? so that the each time when I load, it will not load all of them. is there any other best practice is available for these kind of issues.

Answer 1

In general we follow the following rule,

• If the code is used by many controller views, put it in the application.js
• If the code is specific to a particular controller view, create a js file for that controller and put it in that. It would be easy to identify if you follow a naming convention for the js file. For a article controller, create a js as article.js

Talking in terms of performance, in rails 3.1 we have asset pipeline that compresses and packages js files. Prior to that we have many tools available that compresses and packages the js files. Example asset packager