refactoring wires and bootstrap headers in preparation for search

[pehrlich]

In this commit:

• moved bootstrap header code to one common partial
  -- created helpers for various external JS (such as exceptional)
• re-factored thoroughly and converted all wires to coffee script
• removed options.account and options.community from wires and resources (clean!)
• added sinatra reloader and commented it out again (caused slowdowns)

Upcoming changes:

• implementing search feature requests
• fix bug where reloading changes the url and doesn't select the tab
• experiment with making event handling declarative in the DOM
• mixpanel API standardization

Changes to be done eventually:

• refractor landing resources and community resources and convert to coffee
• see wires/base.js
• exploration in to why sinatra reloader causes rails requests to take 100x the time.

CODE REVIEW REQUESTED
almost every page on the site has been touched by these changes!

• check source
• check over pages, make sure titles are correct, no errors from missing resources, and functionality is correct
• please excuse occasional foreign references to poop.

New practices, demonstrated in this code (I hope!):

• CommonPlace.community = community;
  • window.current_account = new Account(#{serialize(Account.new(current_user))});

use these always, and replace where you can. options.account and options.community are now DEPRECATED

We have too big a project not to be always improving it. Every code you touch, make it better, delete stuff, and make things simpler and more DRY. An important note here is not to put effort in to improving code you're not expanding upon. First it can only break things, and second when expansion does need to happen, you may find you've done the wrong improvements.

• coffeescript is really important for our own programming speed and ability. Learn it, use it, love it.
  -- backbone extend is inferior to the coffeescript implementation. read their docs. Functionally, coffeescript allows the super() method and chained initializers. Aesthetically, the implementation is much easier to understand, both in debugging and writing. See base/wire.js.coffee for detail on how extension needs to be done. (specifically, Backbone.View.apply is important)
  -- be warned that file line numbers are not accurate with coffeescript

WHEN CODING think about how it reads.

• Pick names and keep them accurate, doing no more or less than the name implies.
• Anytime you use a function and it doesn't read like a sentence, it is a hack. Either fix it or label it as such.
• TODOs and fixmes left in are ok! We've got shit to do, places to go. But these will make incremental improvement much faster as our system grows.
• why separate events from views? Because code should be thought of to work robustly in any context, not only of the event you're currently writing it for.
• never ever push code that has anything repeated. Even jQuery selectors.
  -- creates self-documentation
  -- reduces typos
  -- reduces reading comprehension to one location
  -- reduces reading comprehension time
  -- creates clear intent
  -- becomes safe to change and build upon
  -- creates names for things in the debugger

PS: Thoughts on haml? Oppositions to erb? I am bothered a lot when I can't indent my javascripts or multiline my erg (such as including partials.)

PPS: I would like to highlight one bit of coffeescript, taken from their docs. @ indicated this., => keeps the context.

  Account = (customer, cart) ->
    @customer = customer
    @cart = cart

  $('.shopping_cart').bind 'click', (event) =>
    @customer.purchase @cart

[maxtilford]

what's up with zother_wires?

[pehrlich]

I believe I made a comment. Inclusion order. It's not perfect, but
functional not permanent. I'm hoping a good solution will emerge.

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what's up with zother_wires?

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[pehrlich]

I think the other reason for the indeterminate state may be the unsure
future of said other wires. Maybe they'll be deleted and the file
will hold one class and be renamed.

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what's up with zother_wires?

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