Fix JQuery Countdown Timer in Rails 3 Application

Question

I need a countdown timer for a rails application I\'m working on so I decided to use this.

http://keith-wood.name/countdown.html

In the public/javascripts folder

Answer 1

Try wrapping

   var element = '#countDownTimer';
   var year = <%= @deal.end.year %>;
   var month = <%= @deal.end.month %>;
   var day = <%= @deal.end.day %>;
   setCountdownTimer(element, year, month, day);

inside a $(document).ready()

also I don't think this needs to be in the $(document).ready()

function setCountdownTimer(element, year, month, day) {
  var date = new Date(year, month, day);
  $(element).countdown({until: date});
}

The issue is probably that your calling setCountdownTimer before its defined