Receptive

Receptive is a toolkit that will help you add behavior to your existing, server-generated HTML. It's not intended for single-page-application but rather about taking care of specific DOM nodes.

This is perfect for you if:

• you already generate all your views from the server (and don't want to throw everything away following the latest JavaScript fad)
• you need your site to work without JavaScript for SEO or any other reasons
• you have a bunch of jQuery stuff around and always wanted to organize it properly
• you like Ruby and don't want to get caught by all the subtle quirks of JavaScript

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'receptive'

And then execute:

$ bundle

How it works

Just keep your HTML as it is:

<div class="hello-world">
  <input type="text">
  <button>Greet</button>
  <span class="output"></span>
</div>

Then write a view with a reference to it:

class HelloWorld
  extend Receptive::View
  self.selector = ".hello-world"

  on(:click, 'button') do |event|
    @greeting_text = find('input').text
    render!
  end

  def self.render
    find('.output').text = @greeting_text
  end
end

Read on in the handbook

Other features

• script[async] compatible
• pjax/turbolinks compatible

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/elia/receptive.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.