Action helper fires action when action is called "on" in 0.9.6

[MrHus]

When adding an action named "on" it fires when the page is loaded:

http://jsfiddle.net/UgQvF/

This behavior was not present in ember 0.9.5:

http://jsfiddle.net/G7gUR/1/

[pangratz]

That's because Ember.View has the Ember.Evented mixin applied since 0.9.6. And by naming your events on and off you are overriding the methods of the mixin. The first two "on" events which are fired in your example are willRender events.

So you have chosen the only 2 names for actions which cause problems. If you rename them to _on or _off it works as expected.

[pangratz]

Another solution would be to override the on and off methods and adding a call to this._super if it's not an event from an action helper, see http://jsfiddle.net/pangratz666/tTaNF/

[MrHus]

The workaround is to simply rename the on and off functions. I do not consider this behavior a bug now that I'm informed.
However a footnote in the documentation about this behavior would certainly be an improvement.

Thanks @pangratz for your help.

[pangratz]

@MrHus Glad I could help.