jquery-ui-middleman

This gem packages the jQuery UI 1.10.0 assets (JavaScripts, stylesheets, and images) for middleman, this is a fork of jquery-ui-rails

See VERSIONS.md to see which versions of jquery-ui-rails bundle which versions of jQuery UI.

Usage

In your Gemfile, add:

gem 'jquery-ui-middleman'

Require Everything

To require all jQuery UI modules, add the following to your application.js:

//= require jquery.ui.all

Also add the jQuery UI CSS to your application.css:

/*
 *= require jquery.ui.all
 */

All images required by jQuery UI are automatically served through the asset pipeline, so you are good to go! For example, this code will add a datepicker:

$(function() {
  $('.datepicker').datepicker();
});

Require Specific Modules

The jQuery UI code weighs 51KB (minified + gzipped) and takes a while to execute, so for production apps it's recommended to only include the modules that your application actually uses. Dependencies are automatically resolved. Simply pick one or more modules from the asset list below.

For example, if you only need the datepicker module, add this to your application.js:

//= require jquery.ui.datepicker

In your application.css, require the corresponding CSS module:

/*
 *= require jquery.ui.datepicker
 */

JavaScript Assets

UI Core

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

You usually do not need to require these directly, as they are pulled in by the other JavaScript modules as needed.

Interactions

//= require jquery.ui.draggable
//= require jquery.ui.droppable
//= require jquery.ui.resizable
//= require jquery.ui.selectable
//= require jquery.ui.sortable

For jquery.ui.resizable and jquery.ui.selectable, remember to require their matching CSS files in your application.css as well.

Widgets

//= require jquery.ui.accordion
//= require jquery.ui.autocomplete
//= require jquery.ui.button
//= require jquery.ui.datepicker
//= require jquery.ui.dialog
//= require jquery.ui.menu
//= require jquery.ui.progressbar
//= require jquery.ui.slider
//= require jquery.ui.spinner
//= require jquery.ui.tabs
//= require jquery.ui.tooltip

For all of these, remember to require their matching CSS files in your application.css as well.

I18n

Datepicker has optional i18n modules for non-US locales, named jquery.ui.datepicker-xx[-YY] (list), for example:

//= require jquery.ui.datepicker
//= require jquery.ui.datepicker-pt-BR

Note that you still need to include the main datepicker module. It is not required automatically for performance reasons.

Effects

//= require jquery.ui.effect.all
//= require jquery.ui.effect
//= require jquery.ui.effect-blind
//= require jquery.ui.effect-bounce
//= require jquery.ui.effect-clip
//= require jquery.ui.effect-drop
//= require jquery.ui.effect-explode
//= require jquery.ui.effect-fade
//= require jquery.ui.effect-fold
//= require jquery.ui.effect-highlight
//= require jquery.ui.effect-pulsate
//= require jquery.ui.effect-scale
//= require jquery.ui.effect-shake
//= require jquery.ui.effect-slide
//= require jquery.ui.effect-transfer

Stylesheet Assets

UI Core

/*
 *= require jquery.ui.core
 *= require jquery.ui.theme
 */

You might want to require these if you do not use any of the following modules, but still want jQuery UI's basic theming CSS. Otherwise they are automatically pulled in as dependencies.

Interactions

/*
 *= require jquery.ui.resizable
 *= require jquery.ui.selectable
 */

Widgets

/*
 *= require jquery.ui.accordion
 *= require jquery.ui.autocomplete
 *= require jquery.ui.button
 *= require jquery.ui.datepicker
 *= require jquery.ui.dialog
 *= require jquery.ui.menu
 *= require jquery.ui.progressbar
 *= require jquery.ui.slider
 *= require jquery.ui.spinner
 *= require jquery.ui.tabs
 *= require jquery.ui.tooltip
 */

Contributing

Bug Reports

For bugs in jQuery UI itself, head to the jQuery UI Development Center.

For bugs in this gem distribution, use the GitHub issue tracker.

Limitations

  • Only the base theme (Smoothness) is included. Once it becomes possible to generate all theme files from the jQuery UI sources, we can package all the other themes in the ThemeRoller gallery.

    Perhaps we can also add helper tasks to help developers generate assets for their own custom themes or for third-party themes (like Selene).

    If you still want a different theme right now, you could probably download a custom theme and require the theme CSS after requiring any other jQuery UI CSS files you need, making sure to serve up the theme images correctly. (This is arguably cumbersome, not officially supported by this gem, and adds 1 KB overhead as both the base theme and the custom theme are served up.)

  • The jquery.ui.all.js file is named jquery-ui.js in the official distribution. We should follow their naming. But jquery-rails provides a jquery-ui.js asset as well, so until that is removed from the jquery-rails gem (see issue #46), we cannot distribute jquery-ui.js without risking conflicts.

    To reduce confusion, as long as there is no jquery-ui.js, we also do not distribute the official jquery-ui-i18n.js and jquery-ui.css. The latter is available as jquery.ui.all.css however.