AngularJS with Rails 3.1 - trouble loading angular-seed

I've been playing around with AngularJS - which is a kick-ass front end framework by the way.

Today I tried to incorporate the angular-seed starter app (found here: https://github.com/angular/angular-seed) into a currently existing Rails 3.1.3 application.

Had a few issues getting the demo code - here: http://docs.angularjs.org/#!/tutorial - to work in the asset pipeline, so just for testing purposes I put them into the public folder - old school style.

I followed the tutorial and had all of my views, controllers, services set up correctly. However, when I included the js files at the bottom of my index page:

<script src="angular/app/lib/angular/angular.js" ng:autobind></script>
<script src="angular/app/js/services.js"></script>
<script src="angular/app/js/controllers.js"></script>

... none of the controllers would work. I would get the {{ model.property }} tags within my templates instead of the actual output.

No Javascript errors in Chrome's dev tools - and network and resources showed all expected files loaded properly.

I thought that maybe I had overlooked something in my code, but when I looked at the developers guide, there is a link to angular's cdn:

<script src="http://code.angularjs.org/angular-0.9.19.min.js" ng:autobind></script>

Just for the heck of it, I replaced my local angular.js script call with the cdn, and suddenly everything was working as expected.

I double checked, to make sure that I was loading the local copy from the proper directory, and I was - it's the standard directory that comes with the angular-seed file. This file was also showing as a resource that was downloaded properly.

Anyone have ideas on why the cdn worked but the local copy would not?