title: Is it possible to access js variables declared in your view from main.js?
body: <p>I have some google analytics code in my application layout:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%=javascript do %&gt;
    (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
    (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
    m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
    })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
  
    ga('create', '111111', 'xxxx.com');
    ga('send', 'pageview');
  
  &lt;%end%&gt;
  
  &lt;%=javascript do %&gt;
    var _gaq = _gaq || [];
    _gaq.push(['_setAccount', '1111111']);
    _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'xxxx.com']);
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
  
    (function() {
      var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
      ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
      var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
    })();
  
  &lt;%end%&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to somehow be able to access the "_gaq" variable from main.js to use for event tracking when a certain class is clicked. I'm trying to avoid an inline click handler here ,due to several complications.</p>