I download bootstrap and put bootstrap.css and bootstrap.js into my_app/vendor/assets/stylesheets and my_app/vendor/assets/javascripts respectively and also edit these files as follow:
app/assets/javascripts/application.js
//= require bootstrap
app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
*= require bootstrap
bootstrap.css is loaded properly but having problem to load bootstrap.js.
And now you have a problem with loading the icons. I prefer to use the bootstrap-sass gem, where bootstrap is completely prepared for the asset pipeline, and sass, so I can even extend my own sass files with it.
That way also the glyphs are loaded correctly. But I prefer font-awesome for my glyphs, instead.
So in my Gemfile I write:
group :assets do
gem 'bootstrap-sass'
gem 'font-awesome-rails'
end
Try adding bootstrap.js to
app/assets/javascripts/bootstrap.js
Related
//= require jquery
How is the jquery library being loaded in with this?
I do not have jquery files anywhere in the project to be loaded.
What magical place are they loaded from?
Same goes for //= require bootstrap-sprockets I put this line in so that bootstrap was loaded correctly.
I have the gem but what magic is done here?
those files got loaded because you have the gem 'jquery-rails' and the gem 'bootstrap-sass', '~> 3.3.6'
they hold the js, css, and images files in the assets directory inside there gem
what the Rails Asset Pipeline does is look at the assets and vendor directories to compile the files
I hope that this explanation works
you can see the assets for bootstrap-sass and jQuery here
I'm trying to install Bootstrap 3.0 on my Rails app. I recently finished Michael Hartl's tutorial and am now trying to build my own system using this new version of Bootstrap, but I have a few questions that I'm not sure about.
My system specs:
OS X Mountain Lion on MBP
Rails 4.0
Ruby 2.0
Questions I have:
What is the best gem to use in my Gemfile? I have found a few of them.
What do I import on my custom.css.scss? I read somewhere that it's different from 2.3.2.
Is there anything else I have to do to get Bootstrap to work, or are the remaining steps identical to the ones I followed for Bootstrap 2.3.2?
Edit
Here is what the bootstrap-rails project on GitHub first says to do:
gem 'anjlab-bootstrap-rails', :require => 'bootstrap-rails',
:github => 'anjlab/bootstrap-rails'
Then it says to do:
gem 'anjlab-bootstrap-rails', '>= 3.0.0.0', :require => 'bootstrap-rails'
Do they do the same thing, or do you have to do them both?
Actually you don't need gem for this, here is the step to install Bootstrap 3 in RoR
Download Bootstrap
Copy:
bootstrap-dist/css/bootstrap.css and bootstrap-dist/css/bootstrap.min.css
To: vendor/assets/stylesheets
Copy:
bootstrap-dist/js/bootstrap.js and bootstrap-dist/js/bootstrap.min.js
To: vendor/assets/javascripts
Update: app/assets/stylesheets/application.css by adding:
*= require bootstrap.min
Update: app/assets/javascripts/application.jsby adding:
//= require bootstrap.min
With this you can update bootstrap any time you want, don't need to wait gem to be updated. Also with this approach assets pipeline will use minified versions in production.
As many know, there is no need for a gem.
Steps to take:
Download Bootstrap
Direct download link Bootstrap 3.1.1
Or got to http://getbootstrap.com/
Copy
bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css
bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css
to: app/assets/stylesheets
Copy
bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js
bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js
to: app/assets/javascripts
Append to: app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
*= require bootstrap
Append to: app/assets/javascripts/application.js
//= require bootstrap
That is all. You are ready to add a new cool Bootstrap template.
Why app/ instead of vendor/?
It is important to add the files to app/assets, so in the future you'll be able to overwrite Bootstrap styles.
If later you want to add a custom.css.scss file with custom styles. You'll have something similar to this in application.css:
*= require bootstrap
*= require custom
If you placed the bootstrap files in app/assets, everything works as expected. But, if you placed them in vendor/assets, the Bootstrap files will be loaded last. Like this:
<link href="/assets/custom.css?body=1" media="screen" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="/assets/bootstrap.css?body=1" media="screen" rel="stylesheet">
So, some of your customizations won't be used as the Bootstrap styles will override them.
Reason behind this
Rails will search for assets in many locations; to get a list of this locations you can do this:
$ rails console
> Rails.application.config.assets.paths
In the output you'll see that app/assets takes precedence, thus loading it first.
This answer is for those of you looking to Install Bootstrap 3 in your Rails app without using a gem. There are two simple ways to do this that take less than 10 minutes. Pick the one that suites your needs best. Glyphicons and Javascript work and I've tested them with the latest beta of Rails 4.1.0 as well.
Using Bootstrap 3 with Rails 4 - The Bootstrap 3 files are copied into the vendor directory of your application.
Adding Bootstrap from a CDN to your Rails application - The Bootstrap 3 files are served from the Bootstrap CDN.
Number 2 above is the most flexible. All you need to do is change the version number that is stored in a layout helper. So you can run the Bootstrap version of your choice, whether that is 3.0.0, 3.0.3 or even older Bootstrap 2 releases.
Twitter now has a sass-ready version of bootstrap with gem included, so it is easier than ever to add it to Rails.
Simply add to your gemfile the following:
gem 'sass-rails', '>= 3.2' # sass-rails needs to be higher than 3.2
gem 'bootstrap-sass', '~> 3.1.1'
bundle install and restart your server to make the files available through the pipeline.
There is also support for compass and sass-only: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass
I use https://github.com/yabawock/bootstrap-sass-rails
Which is pretty much straight forward install, fast gem updates and followups and quick fixes in case is needed.
gem bootstrap-sass
bootstrap-sass is easy to drop into Rails with the asset pipeline.
In your Gemfile you need to add the bootstrap-sass gem, and ensure that the sass-rails gem is present - it is added to new Rails applications by default.
gem 'sass-rails', '>= 3.2' # sass-rails needs to be higher than 3.2
gem 'bootstrap-sass', '~> 3.0.3.0'
bundle install and restart your server to make the files available through the pipeline.
Source: http://rubydoc.info/gems/bootstrap-sass/3.0.3.0/frames
For me, the simplest way to do this is
1) Download and unzip bootstrap into vendor
2) Add the bootstrap path to your config
config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("vendor/bootstrap-3.3.6-dist")
3) Require them
in css *= require css/bootstrap
in js //= require js/bootstrap
Done!
This methods makes the fonts load without any other special configuration and doesn't require moving the bootstrap files out of their self-contained directory.
Using this branch will hopefully solve the problem:
gem 'twitter-bootstrap-rails',
git: 'git://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails.git',
branch: 'bootstrap3'
I think the most up to date gem for the new bootstrap version is form anjlab.
But I don't know if it currently works good with other gems like simple_form when you do rails generate simple_form:install --bootstrap, etc. you may have to edit some initializers or configurations to fit the new bootstrap version.
I actually had an easy workaround on this one in which I nearly scratch my head on how to make it work. hahah!
Well, first I downloaded Bootstrap (the compiled css and js version).
Then I pasted all the bootstrap css files to the app/assets/stylesheets/.
And then I pasted all the bootstrap js files to the app/assets/javascripts/.
I reloaded the page and wallah! I just added bootstrap in my RoR!
Rails n00b here and I'm just wondering if anyone can help me get the DesignModo Flat UI (free) into the assets pipeline? Do I first have to download and load Bootstrap into the pipeline?
I have found a way to get Bootstrap into rails, which is fairly simple, but I added in the Flat UI files and it just seemed to screw things up. Trying to start over now.
You could use this gem
flatui-rails with javascript
Add to your Gemfile
gem 'flatui-rails'
run bundle install
Add to your application.css
*= require flat-ui
Add to your application.js
//= require flat-ui
flat-ui-rails without javascript
add to your Gemfile
gem "flat-ui-rails"
run bundle install
Add flat-ui to your application.css
*= require flat-ui
or application.css.scss
#import "flat-ui";
I create a new rails project,and add
gem 'bootstrap-sass'
to my Gemfile, then I run bundle install and every things going good. then I add:
/*
*= require bootstrap
*/
in my application.css file, and I write a test,but it doesn't.
and I also try add`#import "bootstrap"; in my hello.css.scss file .but it also doesn't work.
Rollen,
You seem to be mostly there. Sass is in Rails 3.1 by default so you won't need to do anything specific for that. After you add the gem to your Gemfile and do a bundle install your issue is in the application.css file. Typically when using Sass I'd just suggest that you remove the manifest code (all the commenting at the top) from the application.css and rename the application.css to application.css.scss (removing Sprockets from the CSS file). Then add:
#import 'bootstrap'
to the very top of it. That should solve it for you. You'll need to manually add each CSS file you'll want to load into the application.css.scss file since sprockets is gone, but that's typically a good idea anyway since load order in CSS is important for the cascade.
If you want to add the JavaScript features to the framework (which you likely will want to) you'll also want to add
//= require bootstrap
Just above the call to //= require_tree . within app/assets/javascripts/application.js.
Probably a little late to the party, but just in case anyone else stumbles across the question...
This was a small gotcha I Solved by adding #import "bootstrap"; to the top of my application.css file, the renamed the file to application.css.scss
Hope this helps.
https://github.com/rails/sass-rails needs to be there in your Gemfile.
gem 'sass-rails', '~> 3.1'
gem 'bootstrap-sass', '~> 2.0.1'
Remove all the comments at the top of the application.css and rename application.css to either application.sass or application.css.scss depending on how you want to do your css'ing
Then add:
#import 'bootstrap'
This should allow you to start using bootstrap, providing you have indeed included the bootstrap-sass gem correctly and ran bundle install afterwards.
This was asked in another question, but none of the solutions appear to work for me in 3.1rc1.
I'm trying to use the new assets stuff in rails 3.1 - I have the files:
./vendor/assets/stylesheets/jquery-ui-1.8.13.custom.css
./vendor/assets/javascripts/jquery-ui-1.8.13.custom.min.js
I then added:
//= require jquery-ui to app/assets/javascripts/application.js
*= require jquery-ui to app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
The jquery-ui javascript file loads just fine, but the css file says:
Sprockets::FileNotFound (couldn't find file 'jquery-ui'
(in /home/xanview2/xancar/app/assets/stylesheets/application.css):6):
Any ideas?
Example of a working setup:
$ cat app/assets/javascripts/application.js
//= require jquery
//= require jquery-ui
$ cat app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
/*
*= require vendor
*
*/
$ cat vendor/assets/stylesheets/vendor.css
/*
*= require_tree ./jquery_ui
*
*/
vendor/assets/ $ tree
stylesheets
vendor.css
jquery_ui
jquery-ui-1.8.13.custom.css
...
images
jquery_ui
ui-bg_flat_0_aaaaaa_40x100.png
...
Finally run this command:
vendor/assets/images $ ln -s jquery_ui/ images
Enjoy your jQuery UI
This is a great article to read about Rails 3.1's asset pipeline and jQuery UI: JQuery-UI css and images, and Rails Asset Pipeline
You might have more luck with the jquery-ui-rails gem (see announcement), which packages the jQuery UI JavaScripts, stylesheets and images as assets for you.
This topic comes up a lot, and now that a significant amount of time has passed, things may be different.
In Rails 3.1.2, I found something that works without symbolic links.
Follow the steps above, but put the images for the theme right next to the jquery-ui-xxx.css file in an images/ folder. This saved me quite a few headaches.
Yes, this would mean the images would reside in a stylesheets/ folder in vendor/assets, but it works and it is quick to do.
Have you tried using the rails-asset-jqueryui gem? It vendors jquery-ui and the standard themes (currently v1.8.16) and makes them available via the asset pipeline. The following example calls for the Smoothness theme.
Gemfile:
....
gem 'rails-asset-jqueryui'
...
app/assets/javascripts/application.js:
...
//= require jqueryui
...
app/assets/stylesheets/application.css:
...
= require smoothness
...
If you're using the jquery-ui-rails gem:
application.css
/*
*= require jquery.ui.all
*/
application.js
//= require jquery.ui.all
It seems to me that a lot of confusion can be avoided by keeping these library assets out of assets/javascripts and assets/stylesheets dirs, where sprockets et al have some opinions about what should happen.
Say you've downloaded a customized jquery-ui zipfile from the themeroller. Try this:
unpack the zip file into an subdir of an assets dir, something like
vendor/assets/jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom
in application.rb add:
config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join('vendor', 'assets', 'jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom').to_s
add manifest files in the usual places:
vendor/assets/javascripts/jquery-ui.js:
//= require_tree ../jquery-ui-1.8.23.custom
vendor/assets/stylesheets/jquery-ui.css:
*= require_tree ../jquery-ui.1.8.23.custom
in config/environments/production.rb, add (referring to manifest filenames):
config.assets.precompile += %w(jquery-ui.js jquery-ui.css)
in views:
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'jquery-ui' %>
<%= javascript_include_tag 'jquery-ui' %>
if you use this:
https://github.com/carlhoerberg/sprockets-urlrewriter
i believe you can just dump the whole shebang in a directory and require the css file... it will smoothly rewrite the relative urls.
you just have to install the gem and add a config line to application.rb