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Asked: 2026-06-14T14:46:04+00:00

I have a nice set of fixtures that I use for testing. When a

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I have a nice set of fixtures that I use for testing. When a request test fails it is handy to run the app interactively with the test fixtures loaded. But if I run the full server with -e test I get all kinds of crazy errors, probably having to do with the pipeline.

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When I visit the home page I get this in the browser:

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I say it’s crazy, because I don’t understand it 🙂 In particular, I am using twitter-bootstrap and I am unclear about sass/scss/css work with Twitter Bootstrap + Rails so it’s highly likely that I have some detail wrong in how I am using them together (or that the gem twitter-bootstrap-rails has some bug.)

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ah, much better question :-).

    The twitter-bootstrap-rails gem uses LESS, which is similar to SASS in what it does, but not the same. SASS is the default for Rails, and a good choice. If you want to use SASS, (and based on the error, it appears you are), then use the Bootstrap SASS gem instead, linked here. It may be possible to use both LESS and SASS together, but that seems like a Bad Idea to me.

    Check out Ryan Bates’ excellent RailsCast which covers using Twitter Bootstrap in Rails. It covers both alternatives. And then fork over the $9 to get Pro access to his continued RailsCast with more details.

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