What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of the different gems providing Twitter Bootstrap's functionality to Rails? As of the time of writing this question, The Ruby Toolbox lists the following projects:
And even some others providing partial functionality (e.g. generating forms). How do these gems differ?
P.S. If appropriate, please write about each gem in a separate answer, so that each one can be voted for.
The gems use various ways of getting twitter bootstrap into your Rails app.
Quoted from an excellent blog post on the topic, Twitter Bootstrap, Less, and Sass: Understanding Your Options for Rails 3.1:
- Using the original Less code via a Rails engine (less-rails-bootstrap or twitter-bootstrap-rails)
- Copying in translated Sass code directly into your application (sass-twitter-bootstrap), or
- Using a translated Sass version via a Rails engine (bootstrap-sass or bootstrap-rails).
Deciding which kind of approach you feel best about, will help you decide what gem to use.
I use anjlab-bootstrap-rails.
In general I am pleased with it.
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