Using Rails 3.1, where do you put your “page specific” JavaScript code?

Question

To my understanding, all of your JavaScript gets merged into 1 file. Rails does this by default when it adds //= require_tree . to the bottom of your appl

Answer 1

ryguy's answer is a good answer, even though its been downvoted into negative points land.

Especially if you're using something like Backbone JS - each page has its own Backbone view. Then the erb file just has a single line of inline javascript that fires up the right backbone view class. I consider it a single line of 'glue code' and therefore the fact that its inline is OK. The advantage is that you can keep your "require_tree" which lets the browser cache all the javascript.

in show.html.erb, you'll have something like:

<% provide :javascript do %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag do %>
    (new app.views.ProjectsView({el: 'body'})).render();
  <% end %>
<% end do %>

and in your layout file, you'll need:

<%= yield :javascript %>