OK. I have figure this out and am posting the solution here so that someone who runs into this problem can benefit from this knowledge.
At some point in time, I have pre-compiled the coffeescript files to javascript in my assets/javascripts folder and therefore there were corresponding javascript files along with the coffeescript files in my development environment. Asset pipeline was executing both instead of either! So the moral of the exercise is that if you are using coffeescript, be sure to delete corresponding javascript files from the assets/javascripts folder. As soon as I deleted app/assets/javascripts/type_wells.js.js file, everything worked as expected Bharat -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

