Hopskip

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Write hopscotch introductions simply by adding YAML files to your Rails application.

Requirements

• Rails 3.2+
• Hopscotch js and css files available. You can use just a standard installation in the asset pipeline or this gem.

Install

Add hopskip to your Gemfile

gem 'hopskip'

Add the hopskip template to your application layout. It doesn't matter where, as long as controller is the controller object currently visible to the user.

<%= Hopskip::HopscotchParser.new(controller).show %>

Usage

hopskip assumes a file structure like this:

├── app
  ├── tours
    ├── dashboards_tour.yml
    └── projects_tour.yml

Where each file is name xyz_tour.yml where xyz is the name of the controller.

The contents of each of these files should look similar to this:

---
index:
  steps:
    - title: Welcome to My App
      content: "Some Text..."
      target: left_util
      placement: right

    - title: Dashboard
      content: "This is your dashboard"
      target: left_util
      placement: bottom
show:
  steps:
    - title: another title...
  #...

You can generate an example tour file by using the included generator:

rails generate tour [controller_name]

For a full list of params, check out the hopscotch docs.

Advanced Usage

You can also attach methods to the onClose, onEnd and other callback methods included with hopscotch. Simply define a hopscotch helper in your view:

<script>
  hopscotch.registerHelper('showError', function() {
    alert("This is an error!");
  });
</script>

In your tour file, you can now ask that this method is called at various points in the tour's lifecycle:

---
index:
  steps:
    - title: Welcome to My App
      content: "Some Text..."
      target: left_util
      placement: right
      onNext:
        - showError

The showError helper will now be executed when next is clicked on the first step. You can pass as many helpers as you like to each callback methods.

Error Handling

If the YAML file is not correctly formatted, Hopskip will raise a Hopskip::InvalidYAMLError exception.

We use Hopskip

We use Hopskip in FleetSuite, a business management system offering a set of collaborative project management tools to optimise processes.