jQuery Drag Sort for Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline

jQuery DragSort Plugin is a list drag and sort plugin made available by and on CodePlex. jQuery List Drag Sort features list element's dragging, dropping, and saving the sorted list by user using jQuery.

jquery-dragsort-rails is a library that integrates jQuery List Drag Sort for Rails 3.1 or above Asset Pipeline.

Plugin version

jQuery List Drag Sort Plugin v0.5.1

Installing Gem

Add this in your Gemfile:

gem "jquery-dragsort-rails"

How to use this plugin

To use this plugin follow these steps:

Refer javascript

Require jquery-dragsort in your app/assets/application.js file.

//= require jquery-dragsort

In your code:

Let's assume you are sorting products on your page, and your code looks something like this in your sort_products.html.erb template -

  <%= form_tag save_order_products_path do -%>
    <!-- save sort order here which can be retrieved from server on postback -->
    <input id= "product_positions" name="product_positions" type="hidden" value="0" />
    <div class="span2" id="save_order"></div><!--  To insert a button when list's position is changed. -->
  <% end -%>

  <ul id="products" class="thumbnails">
    <% @products.each do |product| %>
      <% unless product.pictures.blank? %>
        <%= content_tag_for :li, product, :class=> "span2" do %>
          <div class="span2 thumbnail" value="<%= product.id %>">
              <%= image_tag(product.pictures.first.image(:small), :size => "260x180") %>
              <div class="caption">
                <h5><%= product.name %></h5>
                <p><%= product.sku_code %></p>
                <p><%= truncate(product.description, :length => 45, :separator => ' ') %></p>
              </div>
          </div>
        <% end %>
      <% end %>
    <% end %>
  </ul>

In your products.js.cofee file -

  saveOrder = ->
    data = $("#products li").map -> 
      $(this).children().attr("value")
    .get()
    $("input[name=product_positions]").val data.join(",")
    $("#save_order").html '<button class="btn btn-primary"><i class="icon-ok icon-white"></i> Save</button>'

  $("#products, #list2").dragsort
    dragSelector: "div"
    dragBetween: true
    dragEnd: saveOrder
    placeHolderTemplate: "<li class='placeHolder'><div></div></li>"

Thanks

Thanks to Codeplex for making list dragsort plugin available.

License

This project is released under and uses MIT-LICENSE. Go to http://dragsort.codeplex.com/license for more licensing infromation.

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