How to namespace our JS for use with the Rails asset pipeline

Question

I understand the reasoning behind the rails 3.1 asset pipeline: we compile all the JS in a neat, cacheable file to improve performance. Great we want that.

However, load

Answer 1

Here is a way to namespace everything on a controller/action level

• http://www.viget.com/inspire/extending-paul-irishs-comprehensive-dom-ready-execution/
• above was inspired by http://paulirish.com/2009/markup-based-unobtrusive-comprehensive-dom-ready-execution/

You basically declare you body as such

And then these methods are called (which each have a series of methods -- so if you need something on every page, it's in common/init. Or on all users actions, that's on users/init. Or only the users show page? that's users/show.

SITENAME.common.init();
SITENAME.users.init();
SITENAME.users.show();

I've used this and it works very very well.