Upgrading jquery

Upgrading jQuery

This page explains how to update jQuery and jQuery UI for use with Tracks

For Tracks >= 2.2

Upgrading jQueryUI

This is a manual process involving the following steps:

• Download the UI zip from jqueryui.com using the custom download
  • Check all modules
  • Select Sunny as the theme
  • Select the latest version
  • Click download
• Remove old ui files
  • git rm -r public/stylesheets/images
  • git rm vendor/assets/stylesheets/jquery-ui-XX.custom.js
  • git rm vendor/assets/javascripts/jquery-ui-XX.custom.min.js
• Add new ui files
  • From /css/sunny in the zip, copy all (css and images) to vendor/assets/stylesheets. Yes, the images need to be in the stylesheets directory for jQuery to find them.
  • From /js in the zip copy only jquery-ui-XX.min.js to vendor/assets/javascripts
• change ref to jquery-ui javascripts AND stylesheets in app/assets/javascripts/application.js

For Tracks <= 2.1

Upgrading jQuery is done by hand and involves the following steps:

• Download latest min version of jQuery from http://jquery.com
• Save it to public/javascripts
• Remove old js: git rm public/javascripts/jquery-XX.min.js
• Change ref to jquery javascripts in
  • app/views/layouts/login.html.erb
  • app/views/layouts/standard.html.erb

Upgrading jQueryUI by hand involves the following steps:

• Download the ui zip from jqueryui.com using the custom download
  • Check all modules
  • Select Sunny as the theme
  • Select the latest version
  • Click download
• Remove old UI files
  • git rm -r public/stylesheets/images
  • git rm public/stylesheets/jquery-ui-XX.custom.js
  • git rm public/javascripts/jquery-ui-XX.custom.min.js
• Add new UI files
  • from /css/sunny in the zip copy all css and images to public/stylesheets. Yes, the images need to be in this stylesheets directory for jQuery to find them.
  • from /js in the zip copy only jquery-ui-XX.min.js to public/javascripts
• change ref to jquery-ui javascripts AND stylesheets in app/views/layouts/standard.html.erb

Test Tracks (rake cucumber:selenium) and enjoy

Remember to clear the cache on production environments!