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Posted by Kevin Hill
Kevin Hill
Courses Plus Student 416 Points

How do you install Twitter Bootstrap 3?

How do you install Twitter Bootstrap 3 to an existing ruby on rails project? Could anybody help me, i'v installed Twitter Bootstrap 2.3.2 and that was straight forward, but with Bootstrap 3 there is tons of files and folders and i'm stuck which files and folders i need to install Twitter bootstrap 3 to my ruby on rails project. Any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks :)

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Let me say, I'm not a programmer, so I know little of RoR. How are you trying to install it? There is an option to install it with bower, and they give you the command of 

$ bower install bootstrap

But I do know know from there, what it looks like.

You said there are tons of files and folders, which is true if you download it from the frontpage. The files you need to get bootstrap3 going are inside of the file "dist" which you'll find css, fonts, and js folders inside, and those are the ones you want.

Hope that helps.

Kevin Hill
Kevin Hill
Courses Plus Student 416 Points

Thanks for the help, it works :)

David Turner
David Turner
5,556 Points
David Turner
David Turner
5,556 Points

I just started taking an HTML5 class so I can't help with the Ruby on Rails stuff, but the files that were in the Bootstrap 2.3.2 package are in the dist folder in Bootstrap 3. We copied that folder into our project site.

Kevin Hill
Kevin Hill
Courses Plus Student 416 Points

Thanks also for the help. :)