Have AbstractChosen and SelectParser available from window

[daniel-g]

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[tjschuck]

@daniel-g Please give some reason/justification for this pull request. Closing until more information provided.

[daniel-g]

Oh, sorry. I was getting the error 'AbstractChosen' not defined and 'SelectParser' not defined, so I fixed it assigning the class to the window namespace.

[stof]

well, are you using the compiled JS or are you compiling the CoffeeScript source yourselves ?

[daniel-g]

I'm using rails assets.

[stof]

well, the issue is that the CoffeeScript files have to be compiled together, not separately. AFAIK, the rails assets system loads them separately, which is why it fails.

Given that the chosen build process does not require leaking additional global variables, we don't want to add it for other build processes.
See #1455 for a similar report btw

[daniel-g]

I'm using bower to install the dependencies, so I have separate files. Should I use the distributed js and check the dependencies myself? If that's the case, I prefer just using my fork :).

[tjschuck]

Chosen does not support command-line bower install chosen installation. This is because the repo does not contain the compiled sources, and bower does not currently support adding a build step.

You can specify that you'd like to use the release ZIP file in your own project's bower.json file, like:

{
  "name": "my-project",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "1.10.2",
    "chosen": "https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/releases/download/v1.1.0/chosen_v1.1.0.zip"
  }
}

See #1509, #1472, #1333, and #1316 for more info.

[daniel-g]

That fixed the problem, thanks.