In Rails -
Where should I locate Gems? I downloaded bootstrap and it's working, as well as a sample Rails app, separately, but I want them to work together. There is a bootstrapped rails gem (http://rubygems.org/gems/bootstrapped-rails) which I downloaded, but I'm unsure as to where I should locate it. Under models?
And how do I make sure I am referring to it? I need to add something in controller as well?
Again, more an answer to the question in the title than to what was intended by the questioner but you can use
bundle show <gemname>
To locate the directory where a gem is installed.
As Dfr mentioned: https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails
Twitter bootstrap isn't anything more than (mostly) a collection of css/js/image files.
Add this to your gemfile
gem "twitter-bootstrap-rails"
run
bundle install
run for simple css
rails generate bootstrap:install static
It should place relevant js and css files into your application.js and application.css files accordingly. (Read more about asset pipeline)
To get you started, in the gem's link under section - "Generating layouts and views", you can see rake tasks to generate sample layouts.
e.g.
rails g bootstrap:layout application fixed
You should now have a twitter-bootstraped application.html.erb file under views/layouts.
To answer the question in the title, you can locate your gems by running gem env in the console. That will give you the specific information about your "RubyGems Environment:" When you run gem install some_gem_name it will add this gem to your system.
However, what it sounds like your trying to do is add a gem to your app. If this is the case you add gems to a rails application's Gemfile.
So using your example, you'd locate your Gemfile and add the following:
gem "bootstrapped-rails", "~> 2.0.8.5"
Once that's done, you run bundle install in your terminal.
I find that a good resource for basic rails information can be found here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
The tutorial is short and it will give you a great starting point.
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I have a custom ruby gem that relies heavily on bundle console. Nothing special or fancy, just an interactive console with the set of gems defined by the Gemfile included. We use the console a lot during development.
Currently when I run the command, I receive the following deprecation message:
[DEPRECATED] bundle console will be replaced by bin/console generated by bundle gem <name>
Digging around in the bundler docs I found the following explanation:
The bundle console will be removed and replaced with bin/console.
Over time we found bundle console hard to maintain because every
user would want to add her own specific tweaks to it. In order to
ease maintenance and reduce bikeshedding discussions, we're removing
the bundle console command in favor of a bin/console script
created by bundle gem on gem generation that users can tweak to
their needs.
Can anyone with knowledge provide a more detailed explanation? This gem currently does not have a bin directory. I'm happy to make one, I'm just not sure what should be in the file. Running bundle gem as described in the note above raises an error (as expected).
This is the file that is generated at bin/console:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "bundler/setup"
require "(your gem name here)"
# You can add fixtures and/or initialization code here to make experimenting
# with your gem easier. You can also use a different console, if you like.
# (If you use this, don't forget to add pry to your Gemfile!)
# require "pry"
# Pry.start
require "irb"
IRB.start(__FILE__)
You can see the template in the rubygems GitHub repo.
I am trying to use this gem in my rails application, but when I add it to my gem file and try to use it I get an error saying that it did not found the methods required (I am using it inside a controller). Also require 'bn4r' does not help as rails tells me that it cannot load such a file, which is odd. I can access the library from the development console with no problems any idea as to why this happens?
After adding the gem to the Gemfile:
gem 'bn4r'
install it:
$ bundle install
Restart the server and use it like this:
BayesNet.new
This two commands seem to generate practically the same thing
rails plugin new __name__
bundle gem __name__
There is a hidden detail I haven't notice?
which one do you use, and basically, why?
Thanks
They can all generate a barebone gem but they are different.
rails plugin new could generate a dummy app inside test, and a basic test_helper, which would be very handy if you want to add some functional/integration tests in gem. You can also revise that a bit to use Rspec. bundle gem would not do that.
If you develop the gem for Rails and need such tests, rails plugin would be better. Otherwise bundle or a gem generating gem jeweller.
Plugins are more or less deprecated in favor of gems in recent versions of Rails.
As far as I can tell, running rails plugin my_gem simply creates a 'my_gem' directory in the root of your rails app.
It's not too much different from running bundle gem my_gem except that it stubs out a couple of test files, and runs bundle install.
This may be useful if you're creating a gem that's made to be run on rails - where you need a "rails environment" (see the test/dummy/app directory).
Still, if you do it this way, it appears the gem is added right into the root of your rails project. You could always move it, but if you were to run bundle gem you could do so wherever you want.
I've added awesome_print to my ~/.irbrc file like so:
require 'ap'
Inside a Rails project directory, if I run irb it loads the gem fine, because I've already installed the gem locally. But if I run rails console, it spits out this error:
cannot load such file -- ap
How can I resolve this? I am guessing that it's looking for the gem in the app's Gemfile, but I don't want to add it to the Gemfile because I don't want other developers requiring that dependency. I only want to use awesome_print on my machine.
I am also using rbenv, if that is of any help.
There is this trick.
What you need to do is
# Copy the definition of the debundle! method into your ~/.irbrc
# Call 'debundle!' from IRB when you need to.
(as explained at the top of the file)
The text as it appears on the referred to site:
debundle.rb allows you to require gems that are not in your Gemfile when inspecting
programs that are run with Bundler.
Use at your own risk!
Paste the code of debundle.rb and you are done! A good place would be your .irbrc file
before requiring irbtools.
The code is directly taken from pry-debundle.
Please look there for any further information. This repo exists to simplify debundling
without using the pry repl.
I recently installed Twitter Bootstrap in my Rails app via the following two steps:
rails g bootstrap:install
(this included Twitter Bootstrap to my app's asset pipeline)
rails g bootstrap:layout application fixed
(this generated a layout for me, by default application.html.erb and fixed layout was generated)
Should I do any of the following or all of it to remove Twitter Bootstrap completely from my app?
Delete all the files added by it in APP folder?
javascripts/bootstrap.js.coffee
stylesheets/bootstrap.js.coffee
layout/application.html.erb (edit this file?)
Are there other files that were created that I missed and must also remove?
Try this
rails destroy bootstrap:install
Also, remove the gem from your gemfile
gem "twitter-bootstrap-rails"
If you look at the github repo for this you can see the generators and what exactly they do:
https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails/tree/master/lib/generators/bootstrap
The command
rails g bootstrap:install
Uses the templates here:
https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails/tree/master/lib/generators/bootstrap/install/templates
The layout command uses the templates here:
https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails/tree/master/lib/generators/bootstrap/layout/templates
Also, remove the gem from your gemfile
gem "twitter-bootstrap-rails"