rails, getting syntax error with coffee script

Question

i am trying to do an autocomplete feature in rails using the jquery ui library. however i keep getting syntax errors \"Syntax Error: reserved word \"function\" on line ...\"

Answer 1

If you want to embed javascript within a coffeescript file, you can do so using backticks:

jQuery ->
  `function abc() { return 123; }  // js syntax here`

See here: http://coffeescriptcookbook.com/chapters/syntax/embedding_javascript

This is pretty confusing, though, so it is generally a better idea to convert the code to coffeescript, in which case you can use the js2coffee.org converter as DanS suggested.