Expose JavaScript partial to global namespace and call it?

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Hi All,

I'm making a Rails app in which users have folders in which to organize journal entries. I'm trying to load a partial into view that displays D3.js visualizations based on the character count of each journal entry. The JavaScript code and HTML inject properly, but I don't think the JS is executing.

Show.js.erb looks like this: $("#actual-right").append( "<%=j render :partial => 'contents', :locals => {:folder => @folder } %>" );

$("#jscripts").append("<%=j render :partial => 'show', formats: :js, :locals => {:folder => @folder} %>");

The second line appends _show.js.erb with the rest of my JavaScript in application.html.erb. The top line appends some HTML tags for D3.

I need to figure out how to execute the JavaScript so when a user clicks the link to one of their folders, the HTML and JS are injected and the graphs are drawn. Attached is my _show.js.erb file -- I have tried wrapping all the D3 code in a function and calling it at the bottom, but that didn't work.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Attachments: http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/8638/_show.js.erb

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You can try wrapping your javascript function calls in a jQuery document.ready call. It’ll fire off when the document object model is ready.