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Run your Jasmine specs without a browser

mynyml's holygrail at master - GitHub

The Holy Grail of testing for front-end development; execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within your Rails test suite.

jbarnette's johnson at master - GitHub

Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace. It embeds the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime as a C extension.

Announcing the jQuery Mobile Project | jQuery Mobile

The jQuery project is really excited to announce the work that we’ve been doing to bring jQuery to mobile devices. Not only is the core jQuery library being improved to work across all of the major mobile platforms, but we’re also working to release a complete, unified, mobile UI framework.

Force absolute URLs in views throughout a response

This is more tricky than it should be because url_for, asset_path, etc. all rely on different mechanisms.

Anyway, you can use the attached trait like this:

class ExampleController < ApplicationController
  does 'host_enforcement', :for => 'some_action'
end

Short explanation:

  • asset_host is used for links to stylesheets and javascripts
  • asset_host belongs to ActionController::Base -- changes are persistent and will not be reset after a request
  • rewrite_options is used by the ..._path methods in the views
    ^...

Unobtrusive JavaScript and AJAX

Attached (see below) is some code to allow using unobtrusive JavaScript on pages fetched with an AJAX call.

After you included it, you now do not use the usual

$(function() { 
  $('.some_tag').activateStuff(); 
});

any more, but instead you write

$.unobtrusive(function() {
  $(this).find('.some_tag').activateStuff();
});

that is

  • $.unobtrusive() instead of $()
  • don't do stuff to the whole page, but just to elements nested below $(this)

Normal pages work as before (your $.unobtrusive functions are ca...