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# Bullseye!
An *extremely quickly written* shoot-from-the-hip implementation of [so-called Garber-Irish DOM-ready execution](http://viget.com/inspire/extending-paul-irishs-comprehensive-dom-ready-execution)
for the Rails asset pipeline. Even provides functionalty for Sass to target those pages! Could work with other Sprockets stuff down the road, too. But for now, it's
pretty married to Rails. Also, needs tests for the exactly four things that it does. Anyone wanna add exactly four Cucumber features?
## Why?
I got sick of on-page JavaScript. Also I like using the Asset Pipeline for what it's actually intended for,
reducing the number of HTTP requests. Finally, targeting pages in Sass should be easy.
## How?
Add the gem:
``` ruby
gem 'bullseye'
```
Replace your `body` tag in your layout with:
``` haml
!!!
%html
= bullseye_body do
= yield
```
That adds `data-action` and `data-controller` attributes to your `body` tag automagically. The controller
comes from `ActionController::Base.controller_path`, so it's the full namespaced underscored path (`Admin::UsersController`
becomes `admin/users`).
Then, in `application.js`:
``` javascript
//= require bullseye
```
Finally, create some controller/actions-specific files within `app/assets/javascripts/bullseye`
and give them the extenstion `.bullseye`. For instance, target `SitesController#show` in JS and CoffeeScript:
``` javascript
// app/assets/javascripts/bullseye/sites/show.bullseye
alert("I am showing a site");
```
``` coffeescript
# app/assets/javascripts/bullseye/sites/show.bullseye.coffee
alert "I am also showing a site"
```
Want to target that page in your Sass? Use a little string interpolation and a function that generates a selector:
``` sass
#{bullseye('sites/show')} {
background-color: green;
}
```
Piece of cake.
## Hacking
_You'll need to install [Penchant](http://github.com/johnbintz/penchant) to mess with the Gemfile
during development._