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 work on localhost. There appear to be no errors displayed when deployed to Heroku (the features simply don't show up).

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

Manually precompiling worked for me.

bundle exec rake assets:precompile before you push to heroku.

Answer 2

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