I see https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails how I can add bootstrap to a completely new application, using rails generate scaffold Product name price:decimal --skip-stylesheets.
My question is: how do I delete the current assets (e.g. stylesheets) from an existing application so I can install bootstrap and not have any conflicts?
PS this command seems to be for a scaffold - does it create a layout for the entire application?
If you use SASS, there is a gem https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass that you could use instead of doing what you are trying now. As long as you have
#import "bootstrap";
in a stylesheet in app/assets/stylesheets ending with extension .css.scss (e.g. example.css.scss)
Your stylesheet are stored under app/assets/stylesheets and listed individually in a manifest file, which by default is app/assets/stylesheets/application.css.
Do not delete the manifest file. Open it, go through every item listed and delete them one by one -- both the manifest entry and the actual files. Pay attention to the require_tree and require_directory directives since they include entire directories.
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How can I use a theme from Bulmaswatch in my rails app? I'm currently using the bulma-rails gem. Bulmaswatch recommend using their CDN but how to get it work with the asset pipeline? What's the simplest easier way to get it done?
(Supposition is you have routes, controllers, views sorted)
Add the bulma gem (cdn not needed)
Add any number of Boostrap gems that play well with sass
Bundle
Add #import "bulma"; into application file
Restart the server
IMHO the easiest way is:
Under app/assets/stylesheets delete application.css and create a new file called application.css.scss
Then in that file copy paste the code from your favorite theme on bulmaswatch.
There you go, you've got a unique theme working in bulma.
This question is somewhat similar to: How to customize bulma variables in rails
I'm guessing this is a silly question, but i'm a bit of a newb...
I've added the chosen gem to my rails app by adding it to my Gemfile and requiring chosen-jquery in my application.js file.
My question is: where can i find the actual javascript file for chosen? Is it downloading it automatically?
Simply include the JS and CSS files like described in the documentation on the main page of the Github project and it will be included when precompiling your assets. The files are not within your project directory but rather within the gem and will be resolved by the pipeline when the gem is included.
If you need to get to the file directly (for modifications), you need to put the JS in there manually. You can then still include it in the main application.js for the pipeline and have better control of the version in use. To me, this is the preferred method.
However, may I suggest switching to Select2 which is originally based on Chosen but under much more active development and better documentation:
http://ivaynberg.github.io/select2/
https://github.com/ivaynberg/select2
There's also a gem for it if you like:
https://github.com/argerim/select2-rails
It's in a gem itself. If you look at vendor/assets/javascripts in gem root, you'll see all javascripts that come with chosen gem. They are added by assets pipeline, with
//= require chosen-jquery
line in your application.js.
Look up your assets load path. Like this:
in terminal cd to your app root
then open rails console
then run Rails.application.config.assets.paths
Your chosen-jquery is in one of those folders.
I've got a Ruby on Rails app running with Bootstrap, which I installed using the gem twitter-bootstrap-rails.
I'd now like to integrate a new Bootswatch theme, but I'm having trouble figuring out what to do.
There are four possible downloads for each theme - a bootstrap.css file, a bootstrap.min.css file, a variables.less file, and a bootswatch.less. My question is: do I need to download and add them ALL to my ~/app/assets/stylesheets folder? or do I just need a subset of those? Currently inside ~/app/assets/stylesheets are just two files: application.css and boostrap_and_overrides.css.less. LESS really throws me off here so I'm totally confused with how it works and what I need to do to add new css files with this setup. Any help is appreciated.
You only need to download the bootstrap.css file, and rename it. The bootstrap.min.css is the same as the css file just a minified version of it. Less is just another way of writing css and accessing each property differently. Check out less. Add css file and begin integrating into html, also point html to new stylesheet.
Here's a twitter bootstrap gem for easy Bootswatch theme integration/customization for rails:
https://github.com/scottvrosenthal/twitter-bootswatch-rails
I'm trying to find the twitter-bootstrap files in my rails app ('bootstrap-sass', '2.0.0'), as I need to make a change directly to the bootstrap-responsive.css file, however, I can't find it.
I have bootstrap up and running, but can't seem to find the bootstrap files. How do I locate the bootstrap-responsive.css file?
Thank you!
The bootstap-sass gem uses the Rails 3.2 asset pipeline to inject the necessary stylesheets into your app. The actual stylesheet files are located in the gem installation directory, not in your project itself.
Depending on what you want to change, you can either:
Copy the _bootstrap-responsive.scss file from the gem into your app/assets directory and edit it there.
Customize the necessary Bootstrap variables before loading up Bootstrap in your application.scss file:
$btnPrimaryBackground: #f00;
#import "bootstrap";
Edit: Try looking under
app/assets/stylesheets
Here's an example
https://github.com/joliss/solitr/tree/master/app/assets/stylesheets
I'm not too familiar with the structure of rails apps but did you create a local copy or are you using the bootstrap files being hosted directly by github? You should be able to figure that out by checking one of your launched html pages and viewing the source, looking for something like
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/1.3.0/bootstrap.min.css">
If it's a local page, there should be a directory somewhere in your rails app where the files are stored - perhaps there's a 'static' folder or something similar? Try file-searching for it, good chance you might find it.
(I use Django/Python for web projects but I'll look into Rails a bit and see if I find anything)
I recently installed the fluid960gs plugin for rails, which includes some stylesheets. How can I use these stylesheets, located in the vendor/plugins/fluid960gs directory? is there a way to do it automatically using the stylesheet_link_tag function, or do i need to manually move them to the public/stylesheets directory?
You can reference them in the vendor directory, but it would be better if you just copy them over to public/stylesheets. This way, if you make any changes to them, you'll have the originals to fall back on, in case you need to.
I think you should check if you require the plugin in your compass.rb
Then you should be able to import the lib using #import method:
Add the following to your compass.rb config file:
# Require any additional compass plugins here.
require '960fluid'
Then make sure you have imported the grid library into your core .sass or .scss file with:
#import "fluid960";