Ruby on Rails

On 24 September 2015 at 15:18, Marco Antonio Almeida
<marcoafilho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:30 PM Colin Law <clanlaw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am having a go, for the first time, at making a gem which is an
>> engine. I have some javascript files which I have put in the
>> gem/app/assets/javascript. I can access those from the app but only
>> if I require them from the apps application.js. So if I have two js
>> files in the gem, say f1.js and f2.js, then in the apps application.js
>> I have to put
>> //= require f1
>> //= require f2
>>
>> I have not been able to find a way to avoid having to require them all
>> individually. Is this possible?
>>
>
> What I usually do is something like this:
>
> Let's say that I have an engine called "my_engine", then I would create a
> my_engine/app/assets/javascript/index.js which would have the content:
>
> //= require f1
> //= require f2
>
> Then in the host app's application.js you can call
>
> // require my_engine
>
> This is actually a very neat trick that Rails have to load files inside a
> folder. It will always look for an index.js file first.

Of course! It's obvious when you know how.

Thanks

Colin

>
> I hope this helps,
> // Marco
>
>> Colin
>>
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