Jail

Found a nice Jquery plugin you'd like to try out ? Now starts the RSIs : Download, unpack, find the source files, open your app folder, drag in the javascript folder, drag in the stylesheet folder, drag in the images folder... Oh but wait, there's a better version of (modal/fancybox/slider/datepicker...). Download, unpack, find the source... This must stop !

Meet Jail : it puts all your Javascripts (& cie) in Rails, with just a click!

NOW With the 158 (sept/12) CDNJS libraries.

gem 'jail', :group => "development"

config/routes.rb

mount Jail::Engine => "/jail" if Rails.env.development?

http://localhost:3000/jail/

Chose a plugin, follow the link, Install. You're done.

Oh wait you might have to add :

//=require myplugin.js

And if you're not happy with the actual set of Jquery plugins proposed. Add your own!

config/initializers/jail.rb

module Jail
  LOGIN = 'login:password' #optional
  Jail::Github.add_githublist(Rails.root.join("config/jail.backboneplugins.yml"))
  Jail::Github.add_githublist(Rails.root.join("config/jail.whatever.yml"))
end

Buth the list is bound to grow quickly.

While waiting for a bin/jail feature:

rails console
> Jail::Github.find("name", "repo").install

But it must exist in the yaml file !!!

The list of plugins are in a yaml file : config/jail.jqueryplugins.yml Add more plugins and pull a request! Would it be better to have them in the db ?

Other approaches where :

• create a gem for each jquery plugin. But that means updating the gem with the latest release of each plugin and nobody wants to keep track of dozens of repos.
• Do a generator instead but, while the thought came to me while writing this gem, I didn't find any remote feature in Thor (may be wrong though since rails templates has it). update : it has one (of course)!

• Pjax for loading plugin
• plugin installed? (check file existence)
• plugin outdated? (overkill ?)
• bin/jail

• Cdnjs now shows subfolder content
• fixed bug trying to download a folder
• (fix) creates non existing path before downloading

• CDNJS Integration + Some Github Refactoring

• Walter Davis for suggesting the awesome idea of including the cdnjs library.

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.