Trouble loading rails generated javascript to view

Rails
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I’ve been following Ryan’s recent railscast on creating dynamic select
menus using javascript:

He suggests the following method to create and load rails generated
javascript:

  1. create a ‘javascripts’ controller
  2. create a method within that controller
  3. create a file called method_name.js.erb in app/views/javascripts
  4. use an application helper method in the view to load the javascript
    in the head.

I’ve gotten javascripts/method_name.js to render properly in my browser.
It appears to load into my view with this helper method:

The script doesn’t seem to load however. The html source doesn’t confirm
much since I can get it to reference non-existent javascripts without
error. Any idea what might be preventing the load or what I could check
to get a better idea of what’s going on?

Thanks,

Peter