OK, I've been struggling for days trying to understand why my javascript is just being displayed on the browser rather than executed. I have found out the placement of the javascript_include_tag was my problem.
I have other javascript code in my header and if I place the javascript_include_tag before my other javascript code I only see the javascript I'm trying to execute displayed in my browser. If I put it after my other code, it gets executed.
I can not see what it is about my other javascript code that causes it to matter. it only consists of function definitions and quite honestly after wasting almost a week on this I don't want to spend more time to figure that out. So if this happens to anyone else hopefully the will see this and make sure your javascript_include_tag :defaults is not being somehow ruined by having other javascript code after it.
If anyone has some insight into this I'd love to hear it.
-Michael
