Included jQeury not works under production mode raise `is not a function` error

application.js

// This is a manifest file that'll be compiled into application.js, which will include all the files
// listed below.
//
// Any JavaScript/Coffee file within this directory, lib/assets/javascripts, vendor/assets/javascripts,
// or vendor/assets/javascripts of plugins, if any, can be referenced here using a relative path.
//
// It's not advisable to add code directly here, but if you do, it'll appear at the bottom of the
// the compiled file.
//
// WARNING: THE FIRST BLANK LINE MARKS THE END OF WHAT'S TO BE PROCESSED, ANY BLANK LINE SHOULD
// GO AFTER THE REQUIRES BELOW.
//
//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require twitter/bootstrap
//= require bootstrap
//= require dataTables/jquery.dataTables
//= require tinymce-jquery
//= require_tree .

application.rb

require File.expand_path('../boot', __FILE__)
require 'socket' # for acuiring self ip
require 'rails/all'
require 'pry'

#Setting load ENV Variables
config = YAML.load(File.read(File.expand_path('../application.yml', __FILE__)))
config.merge! config.fetch(Rails.env, {})
config.each do | key, value|
    ENV[key] = value unless  value.kind_of? Hash       
end

ip = Socket.ip_address_list.detect{|intf| intf.ipv4_private?}
ENV["server_ip"]  = ip.ip_address if ip

if defined?(Bundler)
  # If you precompile assets before deploying to production, use this line
  Bundler.require(*Rails.groups(:assets => %w(development test)))
  # If you want your assets lazily compiled in production, use this line
  # Bundler.require(:default, :assets, Rails.env)
end

module Zeus
  class Application < Rails::Application
    # Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those specified here.
    # Application configuration should go into files in config/initializers
    # -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.

    # Custom directories with classes and modules you want to be autoloadable.
    config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib)

    # Only load the plugins named here, in the order given (default is alphabetical).
    # :all can be used as a placeholder for all plugins not explicitly named.
    # config.plugins = [ :exception_notification, :ssl_requirement, :all ]

    # Activate observers that should always be running.
    # config.active_record.observers = :cacher, :garbage_collector, :forum_observer

    # Set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record auto-convert to this zone.
    # Run "rake -D time" for a list of tasks for finding time zone names. Default is UTC.
    config.time_zone = 'Taipei'

    # The default locale is :en and all translations from config/locales/*.rb,yml are auto loaded.
    # config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join('my', 'locales', '*.{rb,yml}').to_s]
    # config.i18n.default_locale = :de

    # Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
    config.encoding = "utf-8"

    # Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file.
    config.filter_parameters += [:password]

    # Enable escaping HTML in JSON.
    config.active_support.escape_html_entities_in_json = true

    # Use SQL instead of Active Record's schema dumper when creating the database.
    # This is necessary if your schema can't be completely dumped by the schema dumper,
    # like if you have constraints or database-specific column types
    # config.active_record.schema_format = :sql

    # Enforce whitelist mode for mass assignment.
    # This will create an empty whitelist of attributes available for mass-assignment for all models
    # in your app. As such, your models will need to explicitly whitelist or blacklist accessible
    # parameters by using an attr_accessible or attr_protected declaration.
    config.active_record.whitelist_attributes = true

    # Enable the asset pipeline
    config.assets.enabled = true

    # Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your assets
    config.assets.version = '1.0'

    #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11554694/switching-from-development-to-production-in-rails-3-2-6
    #我再Production mode 會找不到某些js 檔案
    config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false
  end
end

common.js.coffee

$(document).ready ->
  $('input, textarea').placeholder();

development.rb

Zeus::Application.configure do
  #require 'tlsmail'
  # Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb

  # In the development environment your application's code is reloaded on
  # every request. This slows down response time but is perfect for development
  # since you don't have to restart the web server when you make code changes.
  config.cache_classes = false

  # Log error messages when you accidentally call methods on nil.
  config.whiny_nils = true

  # Show full error reports and disable caching
  #Net::SMTP.enable_tls(OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE)

  config.consider_all_requests_local       = true
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = false

  # Don't care if the mailer can't send

  config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => ENV['development_ip'] }
  # A dummy setup for development - no deliveries, but logged

  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
  config.action_mailer.default :charset => "utf-8"

  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
  :address => "74.125.129.109",
  # :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
  :port => 587,
  :authentication => :plain,
  :user_name => ENV['gmail_user'],
  :password => ENV['gmail_passwd'] ,
  :enable_starttls_auto => true,
  :openssl_verify_mode  => 'none'
  }

  # Print deprecation notices to the Rails logger
  config.active_support.deprecation = :log

  # Only use best-standards-support built into browsers
  config.action_dispatch.best_standards_support = :builtin

  # Raise exception on mass assignment protection for Active Record models
  config.active_record.mass_assignment_sanitizer = :strict

  # Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
  # with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
  config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5

  # Do not compress assets
  config.assets.compress = false

  # Expands the lines which load the assets
  config.assets.debug = true
end

file

I put the jquery.placeholder.js under assets/javascripts folder

[assets] $ tree javascripts/
javascripts/
├── application.js
├── auto_test_modules.js.coffee
├── bootstrap.js.coffee
├── common.js.coffee
├── handy_network_tools.js.coffee
├── jquery-placeholder
│   ├── LICENSE-MIT.txt
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── bower.json
│   ├── demo.html
│   └── tests
│       ├── index.html
│       └── tests.js
├── jquery.blockUI.js
├── jquery.placeholder.js
├── module_releases.js.coffee
├── remote_focus.js.coffee
├── sony_url_command_automation_tests.js.coffee
├── translates.js.coffee
├── urltests.js.coffee
├── users.js.coffee
└── welcome.js.coffee

production.rb

Zeus::Application.configure do
  #require 'tlsmail'
  # Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/application.rb

  # Code is not reloaded between requests
  config.cache_classes = true

  # Full error reports are disabled and caching is turned on
  config.consider_all_requests_local       = false
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = true

  # Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
  config.serve_static_assets = true

  # Compress JavaScripts and CSS
  config.assets.compress = true

  # Don't fallback to assets pipeline if a precompiled asset is missed
  config.assets.compile = true

  # Generate digests for assets URLs
  config.assets.digest = true

  # Defaults to nil and saved in location specified by config.assets.prefix
  # config.assets.manifest = YOUR_PATH

  # Specifies the header that your server uses for sending files
  # config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile" # for apache
  # config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect' # for nginx

  # Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
  # config.force_ssl = true

  # See everything in the log (default is :info)
  # config.log_level = :debug

  # Prepend all log lines with the following tags
  # config.log_tags = [ :subdomain, :uuid ]

  # Use a different logger for distributed setups
  # config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(SyslogLogger.new)

  # Use a different cache store in production
  # config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store

  # Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts from an asset server
  # config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"

  # Precompile additional assets (application.js, application.css, and all non-JS/CSS are already added)
  # config.assets.precompile += %w( search.js )

  # Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
  # Show full error reports and disable caching
  #Net::SMTP.enable_tls(OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE)
  config.consider_all_requests_local       = true
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
  config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => ENV['production_site_ip'] }
  # A dummy setup for development - no deliveries, but logged

  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
  config.action_mailer.default :charset => "utf-8"

  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
  :address => "74.125.129.109",
  # :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
  :port => 587,
  :domain => "localhost",
  :authentication => 'plain',
  :user_name => ENV['gmail_user'],
  :password => ENV['gmail_passwd'] ,
  :enable_starttls_auto => true,
     :openssl_verify_mode  => 'none'
  }

  # Enable threaded mode
  # config.threadsafe!

  # Enable locale fallbacks for I18n (makes lookups for any locale fall back to
  # the I18n.default_locale when a translation can not be found)
  config.i18n.fallbacks = true

  # Send deprecation notices to registered listeners
  config.active_support.deprecation = :notify

  # Log the query plan for queries taking more than this (works
  # with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
  # config.active_record.auto_explain_threshold_in_seconds = 0.5
end