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

Following the lead from Ryan, here's what I have done-

application.js.coffee

$ ->
    view_method_name = $("body").data("view") + "_onload"
    eval("#{view_method_name}()") if eval("typeof #{view_method_name} == 'function'")
    view_action_method_name = $("body").data("view") + "_"+$("body").data("action")+"_onload"
    eval("#{view_action_method_name}()") if eval("typeof #{view_action_method_name} == 'function'")

users.js.coffee (controller specific coffeescript,e.g controller:users, action:dashboard)

window.users_dashboard_onload = () ->
    alert("controller action called")
window.users_onload = () ->
    alert("controller called")

application.html.haml

%body{:data=>{:view=>controller.controller_name, :action=>controller.action_name}}