Question

Playing a little with coffeescript and Rails 3.1.0.rc4. Have this code:

yourMom = (location) ->
  console.log location

yourMom "wuz hur"

When the page loads, this outputs “wuz hur” properly. But when I try to call

yourMom("wuz hur")

from the chrome js console (as I do sometimes to test normal JS functions), I get a “ReferenceError: yourMom is not defined”

Are functions generated by coffeescript available in this way?

Answer 1

an easier way to share global methods/variables is to use @ which means this.

@yourMom = (location) ->
  console.log location

yourMom "wuz hur"

Nicer syntax and easier to read, but I don’t encourage you to create global methods/variables