Can I use CoffeeScript in the views executed on render.js?

Question

What do I need to do so that I can use CoffeeScript in the Rails JS views? For example:

def index
    format.js { render :layout => false } 
end

Answer 1

if you dont want to install coffeebeans, heres a sort of quick and dirty way to do it by hacking into the erb outputter a bit :

<% 
require 'coffee-script'; 
def coffee_script; CoffeeScript.compile yield '' end %>