jQuery not working on Rails 3.2.8

Question

I\'m having an issue with jQuery on Rails 3.2.8. I\'ve installed the jquery-rails gem and my application.js has the following:

//= require jquery
//= require         


        

Answer 1

Fixed it!

in application.html.erb, I changed the ordering of these two lines from:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag    "application", :media => "all" %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>

to:

<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag    "application", :media => "all" %>

Now it works! I'm not quite sure why though, can anybody explain?