Rails, javascript not loading after clicking through link_to helper

Question

I\'m having some trouble loading my javascript when I use a link_to helper in rails. When I either manually enter the url with \'localhost:3000/products/new\' or reload the

Answer 1

Make sure you don't have any inline <script> tags. (Inline script tags are bad with turbolinks).

Answer 2

If you are on rails 5 instead of 'page:change' you should use 'turbolinks:load' like this:

$(document).on('turbolinks:load', function() {
  // Should be called at each visit
})

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36110790

Answer 3

The solution that solved my issue was adding this meta property.

<meta name="turbolinks-visit-control" content="reload">

This ensures visits to a certain page will always trigger a full reload.

This was incredibly useful for working on a solution to solve the issue I was having with this, https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks#reloading-when-assets-change .

Answer 4

Are you using Rails 4? (Find out by doing rails -v in your console)

This issue is probably due to the newly added Turbolinks gem. It makes your application behave like a single page JavaScript application. It has a few benefits (it's faster), but it unfortunately breaks some existing events like $(document).ready() because the page is never reloaded. That would explain why the JavaScript works when you directly load the URL, but not when you navigate to it through a link_to.

Here's a RailsCast about Turbolinks.

There are a couple solutions. You can use jquery.turbolinks as a drop-in fix, or you can switch your $(document).ready() statement to instead use the Turbolinks 'page:change' event:

$(document).on('page:change', function() {
    // your stuff here
});

Alternatively, you could do something like this for compatibility with regular page loads as well as Turbolinks:

var ready = function() {
    // do stuff here.
};

$(document).ready(ready);
$(document).on('page:change', ready);

If you are using Ruby on Rails >5 (you can check by running rails -v in the console) use 'turbolinks:load' instead of 'page:change'

$(document).on('turbolinks:load', ready); 

Answer 5

I got the same probleme but jquery.turbolinks doesn't helped. I noticed that I have to override the GET method.

There is my sample :

<%= link_to 'Edit', edit_interpreter_path(@interpreter), method: :get %>

Answer 6

You can also wrap your link with a div that specifies data-no-turbolink.

Example:

<div id="some-div" data-no-turbolink>
    <a href="/">Home (without Turbolinks)</a>
</div>

Source: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks