Compressors that work on Javascript can be fussy about the coding style of plugins.
One gotcha with the asset pipeline if you're not using it regularly is that if you have assets pre-compiled and dumped into public/assets/application. Js then it that precompiled file can clobber the files as they're generated by the development asset pipeline, so plugins you've included in /app/assets/application. Js are overwritten.
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