using jQuery with Rails 3.2

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi I am learning to use jQuery but I can't seem to get the following line to work from my html.erb file

<script type="text/javascript"> document.write("<p>Hello from javascript!</p>") $("<p>Hello from jQuery!</p>") </script> </p>

I see the output for the basic javascript call, but nothing from jQuery, what am I doing wrong?

I know Rails 3.2 comes with jQuery installed and I do see it in the Gemfile:

gem 'jquery-rails'

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I figured out I need to use:

$("<p>Hello from jQuery!</p>").appendTo('body')