Question

I have a ruby on rails application, and I am trying to have buttons inherit some of the styles from the bootstrap css library.

I already have the import of the css library defined elsewhere in the app, and it works.

Now I am using HAML and trying to render a link as a button like this:

      =link_to((t "some_path"), some_url(disclosure), :class => "btn" )

but the btn isn’t getting recognized. What do I need to do to reference the bootstrap.css
correctly?

In the other namespace where the twitter bootstrap css is being recognized, I have a manifes file which looks like this:

/*
 * THIS IS THE MANIFEST FILE FOR THE LAYOUT
 *= require_self
 *= require bootstrap
 *= require bootstrap-responsive
 *= require bootstrap_overrides
*/

but i am not sure if I need it for the other code I am working on. And if I do, how do I configure it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I like to use the bootstrap-sass gem

gem 'bootstrap-sass', '~> 2.0.0'

Then import bootstrap in application.css.scss

@import 'bootstrap';

Not part of your question, but I also include some JS elements from bootstrap into application.js

//= require bootstrap