CoffeeScript: How to use both fat arrow and this?

Question

I have a coffeescript class that has some jquery event listeners. I would like to use the fat arrow => to avoid having to reference the class, but I still ne

Answer 1

CoffeeScript links both this and @ to the outer context, therefore you cannot access the context that jQuery provided (aka the desired "this"). Use event.target instead:

class PostForm
    constructor: ->
        $('ul.tabs li').on 'click', (event) =>
            tab = $(event.target)
            @highlight_tab(tab)