I’d recommend against doing this. See my answer at Pattern for CoffeeScript modules for some of the reasons why. (“Making your CoffeeScript code incompatible with out-of-the-box Rails 3.1” is yet another reason.) Better to just use
window.a = b
or even
@a = b
instead of a = b
when you’re trying to export something to global scope.
In previous versions of Rails 3.1, bare
compilation was enabled. This was classified as a bug, and fixed in RC1.
So while I strongly encourage you not to do this, here’s how to turn bare compilation back on: Add
Tilt::CoffeeScriptTemplate.default_bare = true
to your environment.rb
.