Comparison between Twitter Bootstrap Gems for Rails [closed]

Question

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:

• twitter-bootstrap-rails
• bootstrap-sass
• bootstrap_form
• less-rails-bootstrap
• anjlab-bootstrap-rails
• compass_twitter_bootstrap
• bootstrapped-rails
• bootstrap-sass-rails
• bootstrap-generators
• css-bootstrap-rails
• twitter-bootstrap-markup-rails
• fennec
• bootstrap-rails
• compass-bootstrap
• bootstrapped

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

I use anjlab-bootstrap-rails.

• It has these benefits: Its development is very active.
• They released the 3rd version recently which includes the latest twitter bootstrap 3.
• It also works with rails4.
• One important aspect of bootstrap3 was that the icons were migrated from .png to font files which is great.

In general I am pleased with it.