twitter bootstrap drop down suddenly not working

Question

i was wondering if someone could help me. my bootstrap drop down menu suddenly stopped working. i have no idea why. it was working before. i didn\'t touch my views my layout

Answer 1

I don't understand this, but reordering //= require jquery and //= require bootstrap has seemed to fix the problem twice for me. First moving bootstrap above jquery as Sasha suggests fixed it. Then I did more work and prepared to deploy using jruby on rails 3.2.3. Precompile assets, warble, and the dropdowns quit working both in development and production. Delete public/assets, as well as some .class files and files in tmp. No effect. Finally I moved the order in application.js back to what it had been before the last failure episode, i.e. jquery before bootstrap, and dropdowns work again.

Could an alteration to application.js be triggering a rebuild of some cache, or some process behind the scenes that is the source of the problem? Next time this happens, I will try a trivial change to application.js and see if that does anything.