Accessing rails routes in javascript

Question

Can anyone explain how i can access the rails routes/names routes in javascript ?

The following are some of the things i tried http://github.com/jsierles/js_named_r

Answer 1

kishore I think this is the simpliest way, just call:

Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.*_path

So, if you have in your routes.rb, let's say:

resources :users

then you want to call the index action from a javascript file, you do:

$.get('<%= Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.users_path %>', function(data){ ...

Take into account that the js file should have a .erb extension (or *.js.erb) so rails knows that must be preprocessed. Otherwise, the file will be served as is.

Answer 2

I was researching this question for a while and didn't found any implementation compatible with Rails 3.

So decided to write my own:

https://github.com/railsware/js-routes