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Posted by Zachary Stites
Zachary Stites
3,130 Points

Rails Tutorial: coffeescript not being recognized.

I am doing the Rails Tutorial "Treebook". I am at the part where we are adding coffeescript in the statuses.js.coffee file. I am adding the following like it is telling me to do: 

$ ->
    $('.status').hover (event) ->
        console.log("hover triggered")

and when I hover over in my browser it is not acknowledging it at all. I am using Sublime Text 2 as well and the colors of my text in the texteditor are not changing when they should be like functions, etc. Any advice on what I should do to fix this problem?

Thanks.

3 Answers

Twiz T
Twiz T
12,588 Points
Twiz T
Twiz T
12,588 Points

What does errors do the console say when you are hovering over the .status class?

-twiz

Zachary Stites
Zachary Stites
3,130 Points

It's getting no errors or anything. Its like its not even recognizing the file. I followed along with the tutorial exactly so I'm not sure why it wouldn't load. I'm not quite sure. Any thoughts?

David Woody
David Woody
8,671 Points
David Woody
David Woody
8,671 Points

I got an error on this part too, and it was due to the fact that I had not added the "hover" class properly to the span containing the "Edit" and "Delete" links in the index.html.erb file.

<span class="admin hover">

Once I fixed that, I was back on track.

Twiz T
Twiz T
12,588 Points

Here is a past post on this https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/jquery-adding-interactivity-arrow?sort=subscribed

a couple things to check.

-[twiz](www.refreshrunner.com)

Zachary Stites
Zachary Stites
3,130 Points

Wow it was as easy a simple indention error.

I had:

$ -> $('.status').hover (event) -> $(this).toggleClass('hover')

When it needed to be:

$ -> $('.status').hover (event) -> $(this).toggleClass('hover') (<---this line is indented)

Thanks for the help!!

Khor Hock Wan
Khor Hock Wan
4,212 Points
Khor Hock Wan
Khor Hock Wan
4,212 Points

It could be also because coffee script was not installed along with the current version of sublime text, faced a similar problem