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Bullseye!
An extremely quickly written shoot-from-the-hip implementation of so-called Garber-Irish 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:
gem 'bullseye'
Replace your body
tag in your layout with:
!!!
%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
:
//= require jquery
//= 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:
// app/assets/javascripts/bullseye/sites/show.bullseye
alert("I am showing a site");
# app/assets/javascripts/bullseye/sites/show.bullseye.coffee
alert "I am also showing a site"
Want to use the same JavaScript for two actions, say new
and edit
? Put both actions in the filename separated by a dash:
# app/assets/javascripts/bullseye/sites/new-edit.bullseye.coffee
alert "I appear on both the new and edit actions"
Want to target that page in your Sass? Use a little string interpolation and a function that generates a selector:
#{bullseye('sites/show')} {
background-color: green;
}
Piece of cake.
Fuzzy search
Plugging Bullseye into an existing app may require making Bullseye work a little harder to target pages.
For instance, you can use Bullseye with ActiveAdmin to target particular actions on models.
However, you can't really add your own body
tag to their templates. Luckily, they do put in both
the action and controller names in the class
attribute of the body
tag.
Create an initializer, like config/initializers/bullseye.rb
and add the following:
Bullseye.configure do |config|
config.fuzzy_search = %{$('body').get(0).classNames.split(/\\s+/)}
config.css_selector = 'body.:action.:controller'
end
Then you can make your controller/action.bullseye
files and everything should just work.
Hacking
You'll need to install Penchant to mess with the Gemfile during development.