How not to include the same javascript files more than once?

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In Ruby on Rails, if a partial (such as _msgbox.html.erb) need to use Javascript by

    javascript_include_tag :defaults

but then, the page layout or other view may also have that same line, so the same javascript files will be included multiple time?

Is there a way to tell Rails just to include it at most once? kind of like the PHP ways of require_once or include_once

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Jian Lin wrote:

In Ruby on Rails, if a partial (such as _msgbox.html.erb) need to use Javascript by

    javascript_include_tag :defaults

but then, the page layout or other view may also have that same line, so the same javascript files will be included multiple time?

Is there a way to tell Rails just to include it at most once? kind of like the PHP ways of require_once or include_once

You needn't worry about this. The browser's caching mechanism should ensure that the file is only fetched once.

Best,