Kai, I've gone through this same headache. I too wanted to use a helper but couldn't. Have you considered using content_for in view and then reference it in the <head> section of the layout to generate the javascript?
I couldn't do it that way because I was doing AJAX calls so the <head> section didn't change. HTH, Dan On Jan 22, 6:33 am, Kai Schlamp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 22, 8:07 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > KaiSchlampwrote in post #976711: > > > > Uuups, I just found out that HTML links behave the same way ... it > > > seems I am too pampered with Rails link helpers ;-) > > > Apparently so. If you don't understand relative URLs, you have no > > business doing Web development. > > Thanks for the suggestion :-P > > > > But I still wonder > > > what the easiest way would be to build correct URLs for Javascript > > > then. > > > Use absolute URLs (the *_url helpers will produce these). > > That is not an option for Javascript files that live in public/ > javascript, as those won't be generated. An option I guess would be to > set some kind of data-url tag and query that by using Javascript. But > I handle it the pure Javascript way now with a little helper function. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
