Simultaenous use of manifest and a magic comment

[Exoth]

Rails 3.2.8.

I've got a .js.erb file where I need to use both manifest and a magic comment, and I would assume that this should work:

<%# encoding: utf-8 %>
//= require some_stuff

or at least this should work:

<%# encoding: utf-8 %>//= require some_stuff

as erb processing has to be done before js processing resulting in js getting simple

//= require some_stuff

But for some strange reason manifest directives don't work and are just included as text. Putting manifest definitions the first and encoding the second enables manifest but disables encoding.

[gaurish]

If I can understant correctly,
After ERB processing is done, the magic comment still remain on the top of the file. While doing the js prepossing, sprockets expects the //= require style comments to start from very first line. if it find something else like blank lines or some other code, it stops looking for any //= require in that file & just renders the complete file as text without any further modifications.

Correct?

[steveklabnik]

That seems like it might be the issue, yes. I forget exactly how all this works, to be honest, but that sounds about right.

[gaurish]

Well, we can add a simple conditional in sprockets code for magic comment. It would check is first line is a magic comment specifying the encoding, if yes then would scan rest of the file for any //= require until blank lines are encountered.

Let me know if this is the correct approach to fix or there is a better way. I will try to write patch over the weekend :)

[steveklabnik]

Discussing this with @tenderlove, apparently there are bugs in jsc when you include Unicode in your javascript. Mountain Lion seems to fix them, but there may be dragons down this road.

[steveklabnik]

Why are you including the magic comment, by the way? Rails should serve everything with a utf8 encoding by default.

[gaurish]

That we will have to ask @Exoth. I was just trying to help fix a bug(if any)

btw, what is jsc?

[edit]
Nvm, found it but how is this relevant to rails? Do we use it to run tests? or something else?

[steveklabnik]

Since Rails has the 'use whatever Javascript runtime' code in it, you may get intermittent failures due to environmental differences :/

[Exoth]

Later in this fils is a 'render' of a file with some special symbols. Until I have the magic comment, it gives me an error of incompatibility with ASCII.

[steveklabnik]

Ahh, yes, processing in plain ruby outside of Rails would make this happen. Just wondering; obviously, that should work somehow.

[parndt]

Is this really a Rails issue or a Sprockets issue? Is it still relevant?

[Exoth]

The last time I checked the problem was still here.

[steveklabnik]

It's part of Rails for 3.2, it's part of sprockets-rails for Rails 4.

[Exoth]

Very good. Looking forward for the Rails 4 release.

[tgaff]

I've got the same problem. One workaround is to run ruby with -Ku to avoid needing the magic comment at all.

[gaurish]

Ruby 2.0 has UTF-8 default encoding, which may make magic comments omissible & fix this issue.

[JonRowe]

@gaurish except that while Rails supports 1.9.3 that isn't an acceptable fix ;) has anyone made any progress on this? [triage]

[tgaff]

I used something like this temporarily: tgaff/sprockets@a098b35

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