Upgrading jquery

Upgrading jQuery

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

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

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!