Integrating turbolinks in your Rails application

We are all excited in a new addition to rails plugins family that is turbolinks. If you have tried to include it in your application, you may have noticed that turbolinks doesn’t trigger your $.ready, because there is no full page reload. As a consequence your javascripts that are bound to $.ready won’t trigger. I will only hack the finished event that is “page:change” which occurs when the page is refreshed. You have other events and their descriptions on the turbolinks github page. Here is a fast hack that i came with. Some of the code is taken from turbolinks library. First have your $.ready trigger the “page:change” event. This is done, so we can bind everything that is now bound to document.ready to “page:change”

$.ready ->
  triggerEvent "page:change"
triggerEvent = (name) ->
  event = document.createEvent 'Events'
  event.initEvent name, true, true
  document.dispatchEvent event

Now when we have $.ready calling “page:change” we can use it in our application like this

document.addEventListener "page:change", ->
  alert "I am called from $.ready and page:change"