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)
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I have a project of Rails 4 integrated with bootstrap.
I use less-rails-bootstrap gem in order to integrate it.
I wonder what is the best way to integrate bootstrap into rails without using less (os sass). I assume I can simply download the css and js files as explained in the bootstrap site, but I wonder if i might have problems with it.
Yes, if you don't want to customize Bootstrap styles, you can simply download it from bootstrap site and put it under vendor folder.
And you won't have problems, since Rails will precompile the files (js/css/img) under vendor folder.
Make sure to read this answer if you add fonts too.
I am developing a website when i have third-party plugins (javascript plugins, with css files and images) and i don't want to separate the plugin between stylesheets and javascript, i want to keep the plugins folder, and each plugin with the javascript and the stylesheet.
And i use different plugins in different pages of the webapp. So i put a "plugins" folder inside "vendor/assets" but i don't know how to load them in the webpage.
Do you know how can i do that? or do you have any advice for working with javascript plugins?
Regards,
Try adding this in your application.css:
#import "/vendor/assets/plugins/css-stuff.css";
and in your application.js, try this:
<script src="/vendor/assets/plugins/javascript-stuff.js"></script>
That should work for you, but if not, then say something here.
I found a nice template online and want to use it for my rails app homepage. I decided to use the high voltage gem and read through its readme. I managed to get the routing right but I could not find the appropriate path/folder for the numerous asset (css, js, svgs and sass) files which come inside the template zip file, and which obviously make it look nice.
I tried putting them into the assets folder of my rails app, which got some of the "features" working, but svgs and images didn't display... and it screwed my existing pages. Reading through the Rails documentation I then tried storing the template assets into the vendor folder, which did not work either.
Where should I store the assets for my template-inspired homepage for them not to screw the appearance of my normal/app pages? Which paths should I use in my html to call them?
If you have troubles with images, take a look at image references in the template source. You can see a reference to image like this :
background-image: url('images/top-1280.svg')
which would not serve this image in Rails.
I would suggest to find and replace all the image references in your css (or scss) files.
Try this :
background-image: url(image-path('top-1280.svg'));
which is the proper way for Rails 4.
The differences:
in Rials you have a helper method "image-path" and you do not prefix the image file with directory name.
It is important to check in your "app/assets/stylesheets/appilcation.css" if there are lines like:
*= require_tree .
*= require_self
Now about Font Awesome : I see that in this theme you are about to use Font Awesome. I would suggest using the gem for Rails:
In your Gemfile:
gem 'font-awesome-sass'
I think the theme you have chosen is very nice. Thank you for sharing it, it will be useful for my current project.
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 am using Rails 3.2.1. How do I add external style sheets in my rails application?
I've tried the following answers to no avail:
How do I link to an external stylesheet in Ruby on Rails? - but the link given in the answer is not working.
How do I use CSS with a ruby on rails application? - which says to add stylesheet in public/stylesheets, but I do not have folder named public/stylesheets. I do have a public folder, but I have stylesheets folder under /vendor/assets.
css #import external style sheet - but it's unclear.
I'm just going to assume you're already using something like this in your layout:
stylesheet_link_tag 'application'
If you want to refer to an external stylesheet then all you need to do is pass in the url.
stylesheet_link_tag 'application', 'http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.1/build/reset/reset-min.css'
If you want to include the actual files in your codebase:
app/assets/stylesheets is where you should place your main css files.
vendor/assets/stylesheets is where you should place the css files for any plugins that you might have.
It's the same for js files. For example your application.js would go in app/assets/javascripts and a jquery plugin like timeago.js would go in vendor/assets/javascripts.
After looking for a solution to this problem for a while, I found this step by step tutorial which explain how to implement a bootstrap theme to a rails app => http://www.notch8.com/implementing-a-bootstrap-theme/
You can apply this to other CSS and JS templates than a Bootstrap one.
Hope this help (sorry if I make english mistakes)