What's the difference between ruby gems for bootstrap?

Question

What's the difference between gems:

• bootstrap-sass (downloads 8,309,861)
• bootstrap-sass-rails (downloads 236,886)
• twitter_bootstrap_sass (downloads 6,011)

and which gem to use better in rails app?

Answer 1

twitter_bootstrap_sass was the first bootstrap gem provided by the community. It is deprecated and no longer being used.

bootstrap-sass-rails was the official bootstrap gem. It was provided by the community and endorsed by twitter until it was deprecated in 2014 and replaced by the bellow bootstrap-sass

bootstrap-sass is the official bootstrap gem provided by twitter for rails users. It is the currently recommended gem for adding bootstrap assets to your rails application.

Note (update as of Rails 5.1.2)

The currently recommended way of including frontend assets is through Yarn. Yarn is a frontend package manager that is shipped with Rails 5.1.2. If you want to do it the Rails way, just run yarn add bootstrap in your project directory and Yarn will handle downloading bootstrap for you. Then you can import bootstrap .css and .js files in your application manifests.

Answer 2

I would recommend that you use the bootstrap-sass gem.

The bootstrap-sass-rails gem is deprecated and they recommend that you use bootstrap-sass directly (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass#a-ruby-on-rails)