Dojo with Ruby on Rails

I haven't found a good implementation of the Dojo toolkit library for Ruby on Rails so I decided to release my own. This gem allows you to use the full dojo suite in your Ruby on Rails application. The project is divided into several gems:

• dojo-rails
• dijit-rails
• dojox-rails

This repository used to host all three projects but they have now their own repository. This one host Dojo itself (the base and full version).

Notice : these gems aren't very stable for the moment. You must be aware!

If you found bug or if you have issues, please open a new ticket on the issue tracker.

To use these gems, just edit your application's Gemfile and add the following:

gem 'dojo-rails'

Then run the bundle command to install it. Now, inside your javascript assets, you can use dojo.

Note that dojo-rails provides both the base and full distribution of the toolkit. If you just the want the base distribution, in your js file, add:

//= require dojo

And for the full version:

//= require dojo/dojo

That's it! It may seem obvious but you can also use CoffeeScript in your assets. Here's an example of the reference guide:

#= require dojo
require ["dojo/router", "dojo/dom", "dojo/fx", "dojo/domReady!"], (router, dom, fx) ->
  router.register "/articles/:id", (evt) ->
    alert "The article has the id " + evt[id]

  router.startup()

  greeting = dom.byId("greeting")
  greeting.innerHTML += " from Dojo!"

  fx.slideTo({
    top: 100,
    left: 200,
    node: greeting
  }).play()

One of the worst problem when you use dojo-rails and Coffeescript is that sometimes, Dojo defines functions which are reserved keyword in Coffeescript such as then with dojo/request or the dojo/on module that you will certainly name on. Except rename modules, there is no real solution such as for the then function. If you have a solution, please let me know!

To use Dojo in Production, you will need t configure assets path and maybe other options. Please see the dedicated page on the wiki for further information on this variable.

I want to thanks the [jquery-rails] project ; it helps me to release theses projects. I would also love to thank the Ruby on Rails team and all contributors!

Please see the contribution guideline of the project if you want to contribute! Thanks ❤️!

This project is released under the MIT license. Dojo Toolkit is available under either the terms of the modified BSD license or the Academic Free License version 2.1. Please visit the official page for further information.

Copyright (c) 2012 Robin Dupret

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