ember vendor js file does not seem to be working

I am trying to work an admin theme into an ember project. There is a custom.js file that has a lot of the javascript for the sidebar, header stuff etc. I have it in the vendor folder vendor/custom.js. I am including it in ember-cli-build as app.import('vendor/custom.js'); When I look in chrome at the vendor.js file I see the contents listed in it, but the javascript on the page does not work.

If I take some of the sections out of the custom.js and put them in the hbs file within tags the do run and work. I'm wondering why just including importing the file doesn't work.

Any thoughts on what could be wrong?

Here is a link to the custom.js file Custom.js Gist