marionette-dialogregion-rails

Custom Marionette region setup for dialogs/lightboxes, vendored for Rails projects using the asset pipeline.

Largely based on Brian Mann's Building Dialogs with Custom Regions screencast, with a few extra options to make the dialogs un-closeable and to work around issues opening consecutive dialogs with Colorbox.

Dependencies

Depends on Backbone, Marionette, and jQuery, since there are so many different solutions available to vendoring these assets, we don't provide one for you. The lightbox solution used, colorbox, is included as we depend on some unreleased bug fixes. This may change in the future.

Setup

Add the gem to your Gemfile:

gem marionette-dialogregion-rails

And run bundle install.

Require the JavaScripts in your application.js.coffee:

#= require marionette-dialogregion-rails

And add the base CSS files in application.css.scss:

//= require colorbox

Then, in your Marionette app, you can declare a region to be a dialog by extending Marionette.Region.Dialog and providing a selector for the element you wish to use for your dialogs:

App.addRegions
  dialogRegion: Marionette.Region.Dialog.extend el: "#dialog"

Now, when you show a view in that region, it will be displayed in a Colorbox lightbox:

App.dialogRegion.show view

Options

Currently, there is only one option available, closable. It defaults to true, but if you make it false, the dialog will not be closable by clicking on the background overlay or pressing the Escape key:

view = new MyView closable: true
App.dialogRegion.show view

Copyright and Licence

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.