CoffeeScript working strangely with Rails 4

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I cannot get CoffeeScript working with Rails. This is the first time I'm using CoffeeScript and I'm also fairly new with Rails too, so I don't know how to make this simple CoffeeScript function to work in the right way. Below is my people.js.coffee file at app/assets/javascript directory.

myFunction = ->
alert "test"

The alert “test” message only shows up when I load the page (app/views/people.html.erb and _form.html.erb partial); not when I click the below button in the form:

<%= submit_tag "Test CoffeeScript", :type => 'button', 
:id => 'coffeeScript', :onclick => 'myFunction()' %> 

I don't know why this strange behaviour is happening. Why :onclick is not working? The generated source code for the button should be ok:

  <input id="coffeeScript" name="commit" onclick="myFunction()" 
type="button" value="Test CoffeeScript" /> 

Below is my application.js file at app/assets/javascript.

...
//
//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require turbolinks
//= require_tree .

My Ruby version is 2.1.0 Here are some values when I ran bundle show command:

• coffee-rails (4.0.1)


• coffee-script (2.2.0)


• coffee-script-source (1.7.0)


• jbuilder (1.5.3)


• jquery-rails (3.1.0)


• rails (4.0.2)


• railties (4.0.2)


• sass (3.2.19)


• sass-rails (4.0.3)


• sprockets (2.11.0)


• sprockets-rails (2.0.1)


• turbolinks (2.2.2)

My JavaScript files are working ok; I tried similar type of function in JavaScript and it was ok.

asked 29 secs ago

jyrkim

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