[LRUG] Best practices for javascript in Rails apps

[Frederick Cheung]

On 18 Jul 2013, at 14:14, Alexander Hockey-Sweeney <alexsween at gmail.com> wrote:

> On a related note to javascript within Rails apps - does anyone have any tips for reporting javascript errors (with a Rails app)? Something similar to the rails exception_notification gem, but for javascript.
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Both airbrake and honey badger do js error reporting as well as server side. I've not used either for that though.

Fred


> Google digging yielded a few solutions (below), but wondering if anyone has come across other solutions.
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> Cheers,
> Alex
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> http://devblog.pipelinedeals.com/pipelinedeals-dev-blog/2012/2/12/javascript-error-reporting-for-fun-and-profit-1.html
> http://jslogger.com/
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> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:56 PM, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com> wrote:
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> On 18 July 2013 13:10, Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's still a slightly awkward feeling when I want to pass a larger chunk of data to the javascript. I normally end up with a inline javascript snippet setting window.foo but I've never felt very happy about that.
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> I use gon for that;
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> https://github.com/gazay/gon
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> Also mentioned here;
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> http://railscasts.com/episodes/324-passing-data-to-javascript
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> It's doing the same thing under the hood, but it's a nice encapsulation.
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> David
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