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Ender-Rails

To fight the paretto monopoly of jQuery, let's have Ender and the Jeesh manage our javascript in Ruby on Rails. And an ender-ujs to make it right.

Requirement

Rails >= 3.1
Node >= 0.4

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ender-rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ender-rails

Node installation

Ender-rails is going to help installing Nvm and Node with some simple rake task. If you don't have Node.js already available, just run:

rake ender:node:install

Honestly it can also be a good occasion to begin checking out this tool if you have not already.

Usage

rake ender:install

When ender is installed you can use ender instead of "rake ender"

rake ender:build # will copy a version of the jeesh in app/assets/javascripts/
rake ender:info # lists installed packages
rake ender:help
rake ender:add[somepackage]
rake ender:remove[somepackage]

Rake is a bit awkward when it comes to pass arguments, so here are the was to do it

rake ender:add[somepackage]
rake ender:add['somepackage someother']
rake ender:add[somepackage\ someother]
rake ender:add['somepackage someother ../src/some_local_package']

Find list of available ender packages on https://github.com/ender-js/Ender/wiki/Ender-package-list

Refer to ender documentation on how to add more flecibility in your javascript package binder.

In your views, you can then use the basic Jeesh tools which you feel like you are using jQuery for most parts (without the bulk).

Todo

create an ender-ujs package (see https://github.com/mose/ender-ujs)
add more rake commands
test the install on various ruby versions (using apraisal ?)
write some rake tests
fix the nvm install and usage

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request