Question

I have some gems that are only used for the asset pipeline. One example is:

gem 'jquery-datatables-rails', github: 'rweng/jquery-datatables-rails'

Unfortunately, I can not find exactly where this gem is installed. “gem list –local” does not even show it.

I need to fix it, because I am trying to use Bootstrap styling in datatables, which is allowed in the latest version. But the version of datatables included with the gem is old.

Does anybody know where these gems go? I am very, very confused by the asset pipeline.

Answer 1

I such cases, I fork the project on github and make my changes, and adjust my Gemfiles accordingly. This also makes it reuseable in different projects.