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I'm actually having the same issue with rails 3.2:

I have a file in vendor/assets/stylesheets/twitter/boostrap/datepicker.less and in my application.css i have *= require twitter/bootstrap/datepicker but I'm getting couldn't find file 'twitter/bootstrap/datepicker'

Changing the file from .less to .css rails finds the file just fine.....

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Your issue is an organization one and knowing how to deal with less in rails in general. Basically a sprockets require will only work for a .css.less and that file would be a manifest of other .less files using LESS' @import. Learn about proper structure via the less-rails-bootstrap-test project.

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@metaskills I've tried with .css.less too and it still doesn't want to import from either vendor/assets/stylesheets/twitter/boostrap/datepicker.css.less or vendor/assets/stylesheets/twitter/boostrap/datepicker.less.

I don't want to keep files inside app/assets.....

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I still think this is just a misunderstanding. Let me explain. You said "Changing the file from .less to .css rails finds the file just fine.....". So that means you can use a sprockets directive for your less manifest file that you want in vendor/assets/stylesheets/twitter/boostrap/datepicker.css.less by adding *= require twitter/bootstrap/datepicker to your other manifest. Now, from here you would do @import "twitter/boostrap/datepicker"; and that would search all the LESS paths that both less-rails and/or less-rails-bootstrap setup for LESS.js

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@metaskills I think you miss read what I put, I tried it exactly how you just wrote it and it does not work:

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Also I noticed we both had a typo boostrap instead of bootstrap, but in my project I have it as bootstrap and it still doesn't work with @import.

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Can you console into your app and show me the paths for both less and assets? I think it should be something like this MyProject::Application.config.less.paths.

Also, can you express you case in a test? I have setup this project to account for all sorts of different usages via the dummy project and worked hard on making helpers to make this easy. Maybe that would avoid bad assumptions on my part.

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Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.1)
1.9.3 (main):0 > Redline::Application.config.less.paths
=> [
  [0] "/Users/cj/Dropbox/sd/acd/redline/app/assets/stylesheets",
  [1] "/Users/cj/Dropbox/sd/acd/redline/vendor/assets/stylesheets",
  [2] "/Users/cj/Dropbox/sd/acd/redline/vendor/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.0.3/vendor/toolkit"
]
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So I just have vendor/assets/stylesheets/twitter/bootstrap/datepicker.css.less then in my /Users/cj/Dropbox/sd/acd/redline/app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap.css file I have:

@import "twitter/bootstrap/bootstrap";
@import "twitter/bootstrap/datepicker"

But it doesn't import the datepicker and actually stops anything loading after it (with no errors).

Thank you for trying to help.

p.s. I can setup a clean repo later with just this example in and push it. I'm stumped as to why it's not working.

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Maybe no sem-colon bug?

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aaaaaaaand this is why I stopped using php.... I'm going to setup/make some less lint for vim so this doesn't happen again. Thank you so much for bearing with me and helping me solve it!!! I owe you a beer :)

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