Rails 5 - turbolinks 5,some JS not loaded on page render

Question

I have a Rails app, I recently updated to 5.0.0.RC1. Most of the transition went smooth, but I\'m having some trouble with the new Turbolinks. In my app I for e

Answer 1

I tried to solve this myself and found a solution that works for me.

My problem was that i had a forum with a "quote" functionality for comments. With turbolinks 5 i got several event listeners and ended up with up to four quotes from the same comment in my editor.

I read upon idempotence and found a solution here: How to make jQuery `bind` or `on` event handlers idempotent

I created (copied really) a global function that i use in my globals.coffee file for events.

$.fn.event = (name, fn) ->
  @unbind(name).bind name, fn

And it works.

My functions looks like this:

$('.quote').event 'click', (event) ->
 do something 

All creds for this goes to: Pointy who delivered the solution.

Link to turbolinks and idempotence