Bootstrap Modal immediately disappearing

Question

I\'m working on a website using bootstrap.

Basically, I wanted to use a modal in the home page, summoned by the button in the Hero Unit.

Button code:

Answer 1

In my case, I had the CDN included in the head of application.html.erb and also installed the 'jquery-rails' gem, which I am guessing thanks to the documentation and posts above, is redundant.

I simply commented out the CDN (below) from the head of application.html.erb and the modal appropriately stays open.