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| -rw-r--r-- | guides/source/asset_pipeline.md | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md | 4 |
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diff --git a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md index 439f2bef3a..f28e3ad81c 100644 --- a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md +++ b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ What is the Asset Pipeline? The asset pipeline provides a framework to concatenate and minify or compress JavaScript and CSS assets. It also adds the ability to write these assets in other languages and pre-processors such as CoffeeScript, Sass and ERB. +It allows assets in your application to be automatically combined with assets +from other gems. For example, jquery-rails includes a copy of jquery.js +and enables AJAX features in Rails. The asset pipeline is technically no longer a core feature of Rails 4, it has been extracted out of the framework into the @@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ gem 'coffee-rails' ``` Using the `--skip-sprockets` option will prevent Rails 4 from adding -`sass-rails` and `uglifier` to your Gemfile, so if you later want to enable +them to your Gemfile, so if you later want to enable the asset pipeline you will have to add those gems to your Gemfile. Also, creating an application with the `--skip-sprockets` option will generate a slightly different `config/application.rb` file, with a require statement diff --git a/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md b/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md index 48fc6bc9c0..8aaa824bc3 100644 --- a/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md +++ b/guides/source/working_with_javascript_in_rails.md @@ -148,10 +148,10 @@ and Rails has got your back in those cases. Because of Unobtrusive JavaScript, the Rails "Ajax helpers" are actually in two parts: the JavaScript half and the Ruby half. +Unless you have disabled the Asset Pipeline, [rails.js](https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/blob/master/src/rails.js) provides the JavaScript half, and the regular Ruby view helpers add appropriate -tags to your DOM. The CoffeeScript in rails.js then listens for these -attributes, and attaches appropriate handlers. +tags to your DOM. ### form_for |