[cjjuice]

Why duplicate logic in the front end? We recently open sourced a lightweight framework for writing coffeescript in rails. It's fully compatible with turbolinks and let's you run only the JS you need. It's called RailsScript ( https://github.com/gemgento/rails_script )

[acconrad]

I'd love this if it had a testing framework to go with it. The primary reason we went with Angular was because it was so much easier to test than the spaghetti of jQuery modules and the mess that are events.

[fervisa]

I usually test my Rails/Angular projects with jasmine-rails jasmine-jquery and Sinon.JS. These three together let you test virtually any frontend js code.

[cjjuice]

Thanks for the feedback. This may be a good addition to RailsScript in the future. As always, pull requests are more than welcome