How to load `turbolinks` in an engine

[sebastianzillessen]

Hi,

at my current project, we have a large software that is wrapped in a private gem. This is included in all customer projects to be able to have a default project which can be extended and to provide all users with the latest version.

Now I would like to include the turbolinks javascript files into that engine. Therefore I did the following:

• gem as dependency in the Gemspec (s.add_dependency 'turbolinks')
• added the line into the application.js (//= require turbolinks)
• bundle install in the main project (I can see that turbolinks gets installed: Using turbolinks 2.5.3)

But when I try to reload the page (after server restart) I get the following error:

Sprockets::FileNotFound at /<something>
couldn't find file 'turbolinks'
  (in /Users/sebastianzillessen/<project>/<gem-engine>/app/assets/javascripts/application.js:15)

Any ideas, what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you!

[Thibaut]

Try to add require 'turbolinks' in your gem's main file.

[sebastianzillessen]

Yeah that did it