Cascading Javascripts

Cascading Javascripts is a plugin that enhances the behaviour of the built-in javascript_include_tag macro. If :defaults is passed as a parameter, the javascript_include_tag macro will load the following javascript files (if present) in order:

  1. application.js; and
  2. #{controller_name/action_name}.js (eg. home/index.js, customers/new.js, etc.).

This allows you to define application-wide and page-specific javascript files without needing to manually include each one.

To use, simply call javascript_include_tag from application.rhtml including :defaults as a (or the only) parameter: 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
    ...
    <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
  </head>
  <body>
    ...
  </body>
</html>

See Also

Installation

EDGE

To install using SVN:
ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redhillonrails/trunk/vendor/plugins/cascading_javascripts

or using HTTP:
ruby script/plugin install http://redhillonrails.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/vendor/plugins/cascading_javascripts

2.0 Stable

To install using SVN:
ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redhillonrails/branches/stable-2.0/vendor/plugins/cascading_javascripts

or using HTTP:
ruby script/plugin install http://redhillonrails.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/stable-2.0/vendor/plugins/cascading_javascripts

1.2 Stable

To install using SVN:
ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redhillonrails/branches/stable-1.2/vendor/plugins/cascading_javascripts

or using HTTP:
ruby script/plugin install http://redhillonrails.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/stable-1.2/vendor/plugins/cascading_javascripts

1.1.6 Release

To install using SVN:
ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redhillonrails/tags/release-1.1.6/vendor/plugins/cascading_javascripts

or using HTTP:
ruby script/plugin install http://redhillonrails.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/release-1.1.6/vendor/plugins/cascading_javascripts