jquery-ui-rails
This gem packages the jQuery UI assets (JavaScripts, stylesheets, and
images) for the Rails asset
pipeline, so you never have
to download a custom package through the web
interface again.
See VERSIONS.md to see which versions of jquery-ui-rails bundle
which versions of jQuery UI.
Warning: This gem is incompatible with the jquery-rails
gem before version
3.0.0! Strange things will happen if you use an earlier jquery-rails
version. Run bundle list
to ensure that you either aren't using
jquery-rails
, or at least version 3.0.0 of jquery-rails
.
Usage
In your Gemfile, add:
gem 'jquery-ui-rails'
Require Everything
To require all jQuery UI modules, add the following to your application.js:
Also add the jQuery UI CSS to your application.css:
Warning:
Due to directory structure changes between jQuery UI 1.10, 1.11, and 1.12,
if you use version is lower than 6.0, you will have to use a different naming
for the files to require, please check following links for more information:
for 5.0 users,
for 4.2 users.
All images required by jQuery UI are automatically served through the asset
pipeline, so you are good to go! For example, this code will add a
datepicker:
$(function() {
$('.datepicker').datepicker();
});
Require Specific Modules
The jQuery UI code weighs 51KB (minified + gzipped) and takes a while to
execute, so for production apps it's recommended to only include the modules
that your application actually uses. Dependencies are automatically resolved.
Simply pick one or more modules from the asset list below.
For example, if you only need the datepicker module, add this to your
application.js:
In your application.css, require the corresponding CSS module (notice
no widgets/
subdirectory here):
JavaScript Assets
UI Core
You usually do not need to require these directly, as they are pulled in by the
other JavaScript modules as needed.
Interactions
For all but jquery-ui/mouse
and jquery-ui/droppable
, remember to require
their matching CSS
files in your application.css as well.
Widgets
For all of these, remember to require
their matching CSS files in your
application.css as well.
I18n
Datepicker has optional i18n modules for non-US locales, named
jquery-ui/datepicker-xx[-YY]
(list),
for example:
Note that you still need to include the main datepicker module. It is not
required automatically for performance
reasons.
Effects
OR
Stylesheet Assets
UI Core
You might want to require these if you do not use any of the following modules,
but still want jQuery UI's basic theming CSS. Otherwise they are automatically
pulled in as dependencies.
Interactions
Widgets
Contributing
Bug Reports
For bugs in jQuery UI itself, head to the jQuery UI Development
Center.
For bugs in this gem distribution, use the GitHub issue tracker.
Setup
The jquery-ui-rails
gem should work in Ruby 1.8.7 apps. To run the rake
tasks, you need Ruby 1.9 however.
git clone git://github.com/jquery-ui-rails/jquery-ui-rails.git
cd jquery-ui-rails
git submodule update --init
bundle install
bundle exec rake
Most of the code lives in the Rakefile
. Pull requests are more than welcome!
Hacking jQuery UI
The jquery-ui-rails repository is
contributor-friendly
and has a git submodule containing the official jquery-ui
repo. This way it's easy to hack the
jQuery UI code:
cd jquery-ui
git checkout master
... hack-hack-hack ...
bundle exec rake
Assuming your app's Gemfile points at your jquery-ui-rails checkout (gem 'jquery-ui-rails', :path => '~/path/to/jquery-ui-rails'
), all you need to do
now is refresh your browser, and your changes to jQuery UI are live in your
Rails application.
You can send pull requests to the
jquery-ui GitHub project straight out of
your submodule. See also their
Getting Involved
guide.
Testing
As a smoke test, a testapp
application is available in the repository, which
displays a check mark and a datepicker to make sure the assets load correctly:
cd testapp
bundle install
rails server
Now point your browser at http://localhost:3000/.
Releasing
Be sure that VERSIONS.md
, History.md
and lib/jquery/ui/rails/version.rb
are up-to-date. Then build and push like so:
rake build
gem push pkg/jquery-ui-rails-X.Y.Z.gem
git tag vX.Y.Z
git push --tags
Limitations
-
Only the base theme (Smoothness) is included. Once it becomes possible to
generate all theme
files
from the jQuery UI sources, we can package all the other themes in the
ThemeRoller gallery.
Perhaps we can also add helper tasks to help developers generate assets for
their own custom themes or for third-party themes (like
Selene).
If you still want a different theme right now, you could probably download
a custom theme and require the theme CSS after requiring any other jQuery
UI CSS files you need, making sure to serve up the theme images correctly.
(This is arguably cumbersome, not officially supported by this gem, and
adds 1 KB overhead as both the base theme and the custom theme are served
up.)