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mihai
mihai

Reputation: 38543

Loading compiled bootstrap into rails withot any gem

What is the cleanest way to import twitter-bootstrap into rails without any gem? So far I've been manually copying the css/js files into vendor/assets/javascripts, vendor/assets/stylesheets

Is there a way to do this without moving the files into separate folders?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 618

Answers (2)

mihai
mihai

Reputation: 38543

I copied bootstrap into lib/bootstrap

I'm using make bootstrap to compile it, then running a rake task to copy the compiled files into vendor/assets

require 'fileutils'

task :bootme do
  compiled_bootstrap = 'lib/bootstrap/bootstrap'
  FileUtils.cp_r(compiled_bootstrap + '/css/.', 'vendor/assets/stylesheets/')
  FileUtils.cp_r(compiled_bootstrap + '/img/.', 'vendor/assets/images/')
  FileUtils.cp_r(compiled_bootstrap + '/js/.', 'vendor/assets/javascripts/')
end

Upvotes: 0

Gary S. Weaver
Gary S. Weaver

Reputation: 8106

You could all CSS and JS in vendor/assets/twitter-bootstrap.

Then in app/assets/javascripts/application.js:

//=require_tree ../../../vendor/assets/twitter-bootstrap

And in your app/assets/stylesheets/application.css:

*= require ../../../vendor/assets/twitter-bootstrap

For non JS or CSS assets like images to go in non-standard directory, in either config/application.rb or environment-specific config, you'd use:

# can add more than one path string or regexp(s)
config.assets.precompile += ['../../../vendor/assets/twitter-bootstrap/*.png']

The recommended way is to either use a well-maintained gem for your assets, or continue to put vendor JS and CSS assets in vendor/assets/javascripts and vendor/assets/stylesheets, respectively.

Upvotes: 1

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