Question

I have a simple CoffeScript file in the /assets/javascript pipeline that is working fine when adding CoffeScript to it.

If I add a simple <%= puts "hello world" %> on top of it I expect it to render “Hello World” on the file, yet I get this error message

throw Error("ExecJS::ProgramError: Error: Parse error on line 1: Unexpected 'COMPARE'\n  (in /Users/user/Sites/app/app/assets/javascripts/application/application.js.coffee)")

Any idea what is preventing me to render Ruby and how to solve it?

Answer 1

You should have a file extension .erb before the .coffee extension. application.js.erb.coffee