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Asked: 2026-06-18T05:09:20+00:00

I’m using Rails 3.2, It’s set up for coffeescript. I know Coffeescript is an

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I’m using Rails 3.2, It’s set up for coffeescript. I know Coffeescript is an awesome language and it’s not too hard to learn, but i’m JUST starting to wrap my head around Javascript and jQuery. So my question is this: Is there an easy way to set rails 3.2 up to use Javascript instead?
At the moment, my jQuery is in <script></script> tags in my view (timeline/index.html.erb). I’d like to move it into a .js file. I tried changing the name of my timeline.js.coffee to just timeline.js and putting the jQuery in there, but I get Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL.

What should I do besides the obvious answer of “learn coffeescript”?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I was on the right track. To switch to javascript in rails 3.2 you only need to remove the .coffee extension. However, you also need to make sure you use // for comments instead of #

    //# Place all the behaviors and hooks related to the matching controller here.
//# All this logic will automatically be available in application.js.
//# You can use CoffeeScript in this file: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
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