mde/geddy — Issue #77: CoffeeScript support?
Author: topfunky
Created: 2012-02-14 00:58:02+00:00
State: open

(I didn't see a mailing list so I'm starting an issue here.)

Geddy would see massive uptake from existing Rails developers if it supported CoffeeScript natively.

It only takes [14 lines of code](https://github.com/topfunky/geddy/commit/02096a2c53731822371f654b173080b0d4fbf6c3) (or less) in app.js to make it work transparently. But 'coffee-script' has to be required in app.js and should probably be listed in package.json too.

What's the feeling of the core Geddy team on CoffeeScript? Is this worth pursuing?

(NOTE: I know that one could just compile .coffee files to .js, but development is much easier when working directly with .coffee files, which Node can do easily).

I made a [demo app](https://github.com/topfunky/geddy-coffee-script-demo/blob/master/app/controllers/users.coffee) to show how it works.