Re-rendering specific js file with turbolinks enabled

Question

I\'m working with Rails 4 and would like to use the built in Turbolink gem. I\'m happy with all it does except I\'d like it to reload one of the js

Answer 1

You can use 'page:load' event from turbolinks to connect an initialize function to it. It will be called always when turbolinks fully reaload your new page.

function initialize() {
  //js code what you want run always
}

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

If you use jQuery a lot, it is useful to install in your Gemfile

gem 'jquery-turbolinks'

and your application.js

//= require jquery
//= require jquery.turbolinks

Turbolinks has two other useful events:

page:fetch //when new page begin to download
page:change //when the page has changed over