How to install Twitter Bootstrap to my rails

ruby, ruby-on-rails, twitter-bootstrap

Solution

I believe you need to add twitter bootstrap to your gemfile & then run `bundle install`. The purpose of Gemfile is it serves as reference to Rails on what dependencies/gems the app needs. So unless you specify it in gemfile, though its installed, your app cannot use it.

Problem

I just ran ``` gem install twitter-bootstrap-rails ``` and it installed a number of files: ``` 11 gems installed Installing ri documentation for activesupport-3.2.5... Installing ri documentation for activemodel-3.2.5... Installing ri documentation for rack-1.4.1... Installing ri documentation for journey-1.0.3... Installing ri documentation for sprockets-2.1.3... Installing ri documentation for actionpack-3.2.5... Installing ri documentation for therubyracer-0.10.1... Installing ri documentation for commonjs-0.2.6... Installing ri documentation for less-2.2.1... Installing ri documentation for less-rails-2.2.3... Installing ri documentation for twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.0.8... Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-3.2.5... Installing RDoc documentation for activemodel-3.2.5... Installing RDoc documentation for rack-1.4.1... Installing RDoc documentation for journey-1.0.3... Installing RDoc documentation for sprockets-2.1.3... Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-3.2.5... Installing RDoc documentation for therubyracer-0.10.1... Installing RDoc documentation for commonjs-0.2.6... Installing RDoc documentation for less-2.2.1... Installing RDoc documentation for less-rails-2.2.3... Installing RDoc documentation for twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.0.8... ``` Should I run bundle update? Or do I just need to add the twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.0.8 to my gemfile? What is the right way to make it be recognized by my "require" and "import" statements? I also added this line to my application.css: ``` *= require twitter/bootstrap ``` Thanks!

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