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Ruby

Posted by Alexandra M
Alexandra M
1,779 Points

jQuery- Adding Interactivity- arrow

Hello, Thank you for helping me out in advance- I am working on adding interactivity, front end for ruby on rails and am stuck here: $ (args) - $('.status').hover (event) -> $(this).toggleClass("hover")

The lesson says that the arrow should indent some content, and well, nothing happens on mine and nothing is highlighted either (status, this, hover are on the videos). What am I doing wrong? I imported the bootstrap application.js files, or so I think... Help? Thanks.

2 Answers

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

Hey Alexandra could be a syntax issue try so it appears exactly as below-

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

Also, the above is coffeescript, if for any reason you may have removed the .coffee extension on the status.js.coffee file the above will not work. And also as a sanity check make sure you have your classes properly labeled with 'status' in your .html.erb file. jQuery selectors work the same as css selectors so 

$(.status).hover

would not work, if in your status/index.html.erb file you had 

<div class="statssssus">
  <% @status.each do |status| %>
     <%= status.content %>
  <% end %>
</div>

because the html class and what jQuery is trying to select don't match. Hope this helps.

Alexandra M
Alexandra M
1,779 Points
Alexandra M
Alexandra M
1,779 Points

It does help indeed! Thank you so much- it's working now:) X.