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Asked: 2026-06-07T21:40:06+00:00

I followed Ryan Bates’ railscast on the best in place gem but cannot get

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I followed Ryan Bates’ railscast on the best in place gem but cannot get it to work properly. The default value I set before_create in the user.rb model is showing up on the page but I cannot click on it to edit; it’s just showing as a static element. Although, Firebug is showing that the best_in_place javascript is being loaded in the view <head>.

application.js

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require bootstrap
//= require jquery-ui
//= require jquery.purr
//= require best_in_place
//= require_tree .

users.js.coffee

jQuery ->
  $('.best_in_place').best_in_place()

user.rb

attr_accessible :email, :name, :password, :password_confirmation, :avatar, :goal
...
before_create :default_values
...
  private

    def default_values
      self.goal ||= "Write Current Goal Here"
    end

users_controller.rb

respond_to :html, :json
...
  def update
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
    respond_to do |format|
      if @user.update_attributes(params[:user])
        format.html {
          flash[:success] = "Profile updated"
          sign_in @user
          redirect_to @user
        }
        format.json { respond_with_bip(@user) }
      else
        format.html { render 'edit' }
        format.json { respond_with_bip(@user) }
      end
    end
  end

users/show.html.erb

...
<%= best_in_place @user, :goal %>
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  1. Editorial Team

    In your layouts/application.html.erb .. instead of javascript_include_tag(:all) do

    javascript_include_tag(:application)

    Also, make sure that users.js.coffee lives in app/assets/javascript

    Edit

    Ensure that you have the gem specified in the Gemfile and bundle installed

    gem "best_in_place"

    Try this, like Said Kaldybaev suggested

    //= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require bootstrap
//= require jquery-ui
//= require jquery.purr
//= require_tree .
//= require best_in_place

    then instead of coffee do this at the top of the page:

    $(document).ready(function() {
  $('.best_in_place').best_in_place();
})

    If that doesn’t work, remove //= require best_in_place and //= require jquery.purr then run

    rails g best_in_place:setup
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