https://github.com/gazay/gon about turbolinks-compatibility

[reed]

Gon can be used in a handful of different ways, so it's hard for me to suggest anything with confidence. How are you using it in your application?

[jondkinney]

I set a handful of variables I want access to on every request (for some analytics libs) in a before filter in the application controller. Then in a few spots in the regular workflow of the app I set a variable here or there in a controller action directly.

The vars from the application_controller before filter come through fine because they're known at the beginning of the request and have the benefit of a full page load. The variable from say a show action of a controller giving me that object's id is what I'm running into as an issue with the suggested setup of gon.

I'm experimenting with putting the gon initialization just inside the opening body tag and loading my main javascript include tag at the bottom of the body (just before my analytics code) instead of the more traditional setup of putting the js include tag in the head and having the gon initialization as the first thing in the head (above the aforementioned js include tag). Hopefully I'm headed in the right direction, thoughts?

[reed]

Yeah, I think you've got the right idea. You shouldn't move your main javascript to the body, though, because it will run on every page change. Provided you're not attempting to access the gon data before DOM ready, I would think that just moving the gon initialization inside the body would be sufficient.

[geoffw8]

Was there ever a proper solution to this? I'm experiencing the exact same thing at the moment

[jondkinney]

@geoffw8 right now what is working for me is including gon as the first thing inside the body. I actually also have it in the head too (which probably isn't necessary and I'll test removing it this week).

[geoffw8]

@jondkinney thanks for getting back to me. You know, I tried that but I kept getting gon is not defined so what I WILL try is having it in both the header and the body. Thats might be the trick