Using Rails 3.1, where do you put your “page specific” JavaScript code?

Question

To my understanding, all of your JavaScript gets merged into 1 file. Rails does this by default when it adds //= require_tree . to the bottom of your appl

Answer 1

Philip's answer is quite good. Here is the code to make it work:

In application.html.erb:

Assuming your controller is called Projects, that will generate:

Then in projects.js.coffee:

jQuery ->
  if $('body.projects').length > 0  
     $('h1').click ->
       alert 'you clicked on an h1 in Projects'