Do not autoload dependencies about jquery-ui-rails

[joliss]

I'm not sure what a good solution is for that. Can you ask on Stackoverflow please?

[joliss]

Oh, and post a link to your SO question here please - I'm curious too!

[dlee]

@joliss I'm not sure what you're asking for. I'm reporting a flaw in the way jquery-ui-rails functions. A good solution is to not autoload dependencies. When I put:

// = require jquery.ui.autocomplete

It should only load the code for autocomplete and not drag in jquery with it.

[dlee]

To be more explicit about my proposal, we should remove the following lines from jquery.ui.autocomplete.js:

//= require jquery.ui.core
//= require jquery.ui.widget
//= require jquery.ui.position

[joliss]

That's the way it should be, I'm afraid. Dependency management is the whole point jQuery UI Rails (and much of the reason we use Sprockets for that matter).

You can stub out dependencies with Sprockets - https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets#the-stub-directive - but I honestly don't recommend going down that route.

[dlee]

Actually, that's exactly what I was going to comment on. Stubs are exactly what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, stable Rails (3.2.8) don't support sprockets 2.2, so I had to fork my own version of Rails just to get sprockets 2.2 going.

Thanks!