The problem is that rails plugins generally install their assets in
application.js/scss. So that's where jquery et al get put. Given
that pretty much everything depends on jQuery, we need to put
application.js first.
I recommend creating a common.js/scss that loads at the end and
dedicate application.js to the rails plugins. I did think of adding
that to the default generators, but I decided that would be more
confusing than helpful.
cheers,
Bryan