title: Cannot edit a javascript asset in rails
body: <p>I am trying to change the functionality of the autocomplete-rail.js file once I've done the </p>
  
  <pre><code>rails generate autocomplete:uncompressed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to get the full jquery code</p>
  
  <p>however, every change that I make (in comments or in code) doesn't seem to matter</p>
  
  <p>I've saved the file, restarted rails s, deleted cache.. nothing works.</p>
  
  <p>the file is currently in public/assets (where the generator puts it)</p>
  
  <p>I can see from the source that <code>/assets/autocomplete-rails.js?body=1</code> is being served..</p>
  
  <p>going to it does not give me jquery.. but regular javascript</p>
  
  <p>what is going on?</p>
  
  <p><strong>update</strong></p>
  
  <p>I searched for the file and if I edit the file in </p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Ruby193\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\rails3-jquery-autocomplete-1.0.6\lib\assets\javascripts
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can see that that is the file being served.. (I edited it and I see it being served with the edit)</p>
  
  <p>this is a problem in working on different computers on the same repo since the edits to this file are kept in the gems directory and not in the app's..</p>
  
  <p>is there a way to solve this?</p>