Twitter Bootstrap for Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline

Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.

twitter-bootstrap-rails project integrates Bootstrap CSS toolkit for Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline (Rails 3.2 supported)

Screencasts

Installing twitter-bootstrap-rails, generators, usage and more

Screencasts provided by Railscasts (Ryan Bates)

Twitter Bootstrap Basics in this episode you will learn how to include Twitter Bootstrap into Rails application with the twitter-bootstrap-rails gem.

More on Twitter Bootstrap in this episode continues on the Twitter Bootstrap project showing how to display flash messages, add form validations with SimpleForm, customize layout with variables, and switch to using Sass. (Note: This episode is pro episode)

Installing Gem

Include Bootstrap in Gemfile;

gem "twitter-bootstrap-rails"

or you can install from latest build;

gem 'twitter-bootstrap-rails', :git => 'git://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails.git'

You can run bundle from command line

bundle install

Installing to App (using Generators)

You can run following generators to get started with Twitter Bootstrap quickly.

Install (requires directives to Asset pipeline.)

Usage:

rails g bootstrap:install

Layout (generates Twitter Bootstrap compatible layout) - (Haml and Slim supported)

Usage:

rails g bootstrap:layout [LAYOUT_NAME] [*fixed or fluid]

Example:

rails g bootstrap:layout application fixed

Themed (generates Twitter Bootstrap compatible scaffold views.) - (Haml and Slim supported)

Usage:

rails g bootstrap:themed [RESOURCE_NAME]

Example:

rails g scaffold post title:string description:text
rake db:migrate
rails g bootstrap:themed Posts

Using with Less

Bootstrap was built with Preboot, an open-source pack of mixins and variables to be used in conjunction with Less, a CSS preprocessor for faster and easier web development.

Using stylesheets with Less

You have to require Bootstrap LESS (bootstrap_and_overrides.css.less) in your application.css

/*
 *= require bootstrap_and_overrides
 */

/* Your stylesheets goes here... */

If you'd like to alter Bootstrap's own variables, or define your LESS styles inheriting Bootstrap's mixins, you can do so inside bootstrap_and_overrides.css.less:

@linkColor: #ff0000;

Using Javascripts

You have to require Bootstrap JS (bootstrap.js) in your application.js

//= require twitter/bootstrap

$(document).ready(function(){
  /* Your javascripts goes here... */
});

Using Coffeescript (optionally)

Using Twitter Bootstrap with the CoffeeScript is easy. twitter-bootstrap-rails generates a "bootstrap.js.coffee" file for you to /app/assets/javascripts/ folder.

jQuery ->
  $("a[rel=popover]").popover()
  $(".tooltip").tooltip()
  $("a[rel=tooltip]").tooltip()

Using Static CSS, JS (w/o Less)

twitter-bootstrap-rails has seperate branch (w/o Less) that just serves latest static CSS, JS files.

You can install from latest build (from branch);

gem 'twitter-bootstrap-rails', :git => "git://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails.git", :branch => "static"

Changelog

• Version 0.0.5 deprecated
• Asset files updated to latest and removed version numbers
• Implemented Less::Rails Railtie to use with LESS
• Fixed railtie to only initialize Less when installed
• New branch for the static version of Bootstrap (w/o Less) - check static branch
• Added path to support heroku deploy
• Rake precompile issue fixed
• Updated asset files to 1.4.0
• Updated dependency less-rails (now requires 2.1.0)
• Added generators
• Fixed generators
• Fixed class name conflicts from (bootstrap.js.coffee)
• Fixed jquery-rails gem version dependency
• Updated asset files
• Added new generators (install, layout and themed)
• Compability to Rails 3.2
• Transitioning to 2.0
• Released gem v.2.0rc0
• Added Haml and Slim support
• Added Responsive layout support
• Fixes and release 2.0.0
• Updated to v2.0.1, versioned v2.0.1.0
• Released gem v.2.0.3

Contributors & Patches & Forks

• Daniel Morris
• Bradly Feeley
• Guilherme Moreira
• Alex Behar
• Brandon Keene
• Anthony Corcutt
• Colin Warren
• Giovanni Cappellotto
• Masakuni Kato
• Gudleik Rasch
• Thomas Volkmar Worm
• Thiago Almeida

Future

• Writing tests (not implemented yet)
• Markup Helpers (alert, tabs, pagination, breadcrumbs etc.)

Credits

Seyhun Akyürek - seyhunak [at] gmail com

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Thanks

Twitter Bootstrap and all twitter-bootstrap-rails contributors http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap

License

Copyright (c) 2011 Seyhun Akyürek

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