using jquery in rails3

Question

I have some questions on jquery in rails3. If I put a function like this in my application.js. Is it appropriate to put my JS in there rather than in my views?

$(function())
{
$("alert").onclick(function());
....
});

How do I call it within a view? Doesnt the function need an identifier or name? Is link_to_function a good way?

egze · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-03 12:07:43Z

1

Proper way of doing it:

$(function()
{
  $(".alert").click(function( .... ));
  ....
});

Don't put this in your views. Just add to to application.js

This attaches a click handler to your links with the class alert. Function will be called automatically when the click event fires (when you click the link).

answered Feb 3, 2011 at 12:07

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Scott Over a year ago

Yes, that's correct. Add a CSS class with the same name to the link that you want jQuery to attach your event handler to. For single items you could also us and ID.

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