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Posted by Rashad Madison
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Rashad Madison
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 26,370 Points

cant seem to get twitter bootstrap to work

I am working on the Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application tutorial. particularly the part where I install twitter bootstrap. I am following the tutorial exactly, but cant seem to get the classes to work exactly how they do on the site. I had it working at one point (kind of) have had to restart my project multiple times (The Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application project) it seems that bootstrap has been changed around a great deal since the recording of the video. Any help installing twitter bootstrap on Ubuntu would be appretiacted.

Ben Ackles
Ben Ackles
27,551 Points

Are you following the tutorial using Git/GitHub? If you're using GitHub, can you share a link to your repo?

Here's how to setup Twitter Bootstrap with the current version (v3.0.0).

  1. Add gem 'bootstrap-sass', github: 'thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass', branch: '3' to your /Gemfile
  2. Run bundle install from the command line
  3. Create a file called custom-bootstrap.css (or whatever) at /app/assets/stylesheets/custom-bootstrap.css
  4. Add the line @import 'bootstrap'; at the top of your new css file.
  5. Start/Restart your local server with rails server

Let me know if you have any trouble.

Rashad Madison
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Rashad Madison
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 26,370 Points

hey does this work for rails 3. i think sass only works for rails 4