Status of Rails' link_to_function deprecation?

Question

What is the status of the link_to_function Javascript helper in Rails? I read, including in this stackoverflow question, that it was deprecated in Rails 3.0, th

Answer 1

Building on Elias Baixas answer... I had to change it a bit to get it to work if this helps anyone... I had to add eval and preventDefault (I'm pretty terrible at JS fwiw)

link_to fa_icon('info-circle'),
        '#',
        data: {
          on: :click,
          call: 'channel_info',
          args: Array('some data').to_json
        }


function channel_info(a){
  console.log(a)
}

//clean implementation of link_to_function
$(function(){
  $('[data-on][data-call][data-args]').each(function(d){
    try{
      $(this).on( $(this).data('on'), function(event){
        console.log($(this).data('args'));
        window[$(this).data('call')].apply(window,eval($(this).data('args')));
        event.preventDefault();
      })
    } catch(e) {
     if(typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log === 'function'))
       console.log(e);
    }
  });
})