Turn this into a gem

[lulalala]

Are you guys keen on turning this into a gem? Would makes it easier to promote as a substitute to nested_form. I am willing to do it :D

[patbenatar]

@lulalala This was on the roadmap a while back, but then https://github.com/nathanvda/cocoon reached a point of maturity where I wasn't able to justify what new/different features we'd be bringing to the table with jquery-nested_attributes...

[lulalala]

I liked the fact that jquery-nested_attributes is unobtrusive, which means I won't need a custom version of form_for or link_to for it to work. I think cocoon is not like this?

I am willing to gemify it, so it is just up to you :)

[patbenatar]

@lulalala sorry for the delay in getting back to you! Are you thinking we would just use the gem as a means to distribute the JS file, or are there other integrations with Rails you had in mind?

[lulalala]

I was thinking in terms of ease of distribution and updates. I think its charm is that I don't need to write code that's obtrusive.

[patbenatar]

@lulalala Thoughts on using bower + rails-assets for this?

[lulalala]

Oh I think it is an excellent suggestion!

[patbenatar]

@lulalala Are you up for preparing this repo for bower submission? Once its up there we can update README to recommend rails-assets as preferred method of installation

[lulalala]

Sure, I am not very familiar with the JS-side of things though. Currently I am trying to find out if it allowed using coffeescript as the main file or not.

By the way, what's your standard procedure for generating Javascript from Coffeescript?

[killthekitten]

@lulalala @patbenatar hey guys, are there still any advantages of this lib over cocoon gem? I'm out of the context, sorry. The cocoon gem is working 100% ok, especially if they will accept my PR nathanvda/cocoon#301.

@lulalala what is the actual unobtrusive part here?

[zavan]

I really prefer this over cocoon for its simplicity.
And I need to get it from bower, so I forked and pushed it:
https://github.com/zavan/jquery-nested_attributes
http://bower.io/search/?q=jquery-nested_attributes

I kept all of the attributions.

If you'd prefer to push it yourself just tell me and I will unregister it so you can do it 😄

[lulalala]

@killthekitten the fact that cocoon_nested_fields_for is needed.

@zavan Nice, @patbenatar I think we are good to go?

[patbenatar]

@lulalala wow this one came out of the past! :)

Where are we good to go with this?

[lulalala]

@patbenatar you mentioned that once this is on bower, the readme can be updated to recomment installing it through rails-assets as a gem right?

[patbenatar]

Ah right! @zavan thanks for pushing it to bower (and sorry I missed your message 2 years ago 👻). If you'd like to open a PR adding your bower link and rails-assets instructions to the README, I'd happily merge it in!