Javascript features work on localhost but not when deployed to Heroku

Question

I\'ve noticed that when I deploy to Heroku, javascript features dont work (such as Bootstrap Popover, Buttons, etc). I\'m working with rails 3.2.2, ruby 1.9.3. The features

Answer 1

I had the exact same issue (I'm very new to Rails). I eventually solved the issue by rearranging the order of files within application.js:

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require twitter/bootstrap

For the javascripts to work in development, "require jquery" needed to be after "require twitter/bootstrap." In production, jquery needed to come first. Not sure what caused this, but it now works when deployed to Heroku.

I used these two posts:

javascript - Twitter bootstrap jquery plugins not compiled for production

twitter bootstrap drop down suddenly not working