Is is possible to do this in rails. I have read about turbolinks. and have tried to adapt it for rails but was unable.
document.getElementById('phone').addEventListener('input', function (e) {
var x = e.target.value.replace(/\D/g, '').match(/(\d{0,3})(\d{0,3})(\d{0,4})/);
e.target.value = !x[2] ? x[1] : '(' + x[1] + ') ' + x[2] + (x[3] ? '-' + x[3] : '');
});
<input type="text" id="phone" placeholder="(555) 555-5555"/>
this code comes from: Mask US phone number string with JavaScript