This gem is meant to be used with bootstrap-sass. It gives you complete scss versions of bootswatches for use in your Rails 3 asset pipeline, just like bootstrap-sass gives you scss version of bootstrap itself.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile, in assets group:

gem 'bootswatch-rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

When using bootstrap-sass, it's recommended to avoid sprockets in your stylesheets. In order to do that you simply rename your application.css file to application.css.scss, remove all sprockets comments, and instead use sass @import commands. These commands are smart enough to fully support asset pipeline load paths, thanks to sass-rails gem.

Here's approximately how your application.css.scss file should look like, considering that you're using bootstrap-sass.

// Example using 'Cerulean' bootswatch
//
// First import journal variables
@import "bootswatch/cerulean/variables";

// Then bootstrap itself
@import "bootstrap";

// Bootstrap body padding for fixed navbar
body { padding-top: 60px; }

// Responsive styles go here in case you want them
@import "bootstrap-responsive";

// And finally bootswatch style itself
@import "bootswatch/cerulean/bootswatch";

// Whatever application styles you have go last
@import "base";

Since version 3.1 it's possible to override variables.

// First set or import your overrides
$textColor: #000;

// Then load variables
@import "bootswatch/journal/variables";

// Then the rest as shown above...

Included bootswatches

• Amelia
• Cerulean
• Cosmo
• Cyborg
• Flatly
• Journal
• Readable
• Simplex
• Slate
• Spacelab
• Spruce
• Superhero
• United

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

I am trying to automate this project as much as possible, so I wrote a script that does most of the work converting less to scss. If you want to contribute a fix that's easily automatable and you know ruby, please add a processor to the converter.

Big thanks to these guys.

• Thomas Park for bootswatch
• Thomas McDonald for bootstrap-sass