What is the best location to integrate jQuery UI Bootstrap in a Rails project

In order to use Bootstrap and jQuery UI together in my application, I decided to integrate jQuery UI Bootstrap. Unfortunately, many of the gems that handle asset pipeline integration seem outdated, so I opted to manually download the CSS files and insert them into my project. However, I am running into some challenges with the instructions provided:

  1. Download the zip file
  2. Extract the contents
  3. Find the custom-theme folder within the css directory of the extracted files
  4. Move this folder into the css directory of your website where you intend to use jquery-ui-bootstrap
  5. Include the necessary .css files in your website's layout

The third step mentions placing the CSS files in a "CSS directory", which I assume refers to app/assets/stylesheets. However, there is also an images folder within the library - where should these be placed? Is app/assets an appropriate location for third-party libraries, or should they go in vendors or lib? Additionally, how do I ensure that the asset pipeline recognizes the imported files?

I attempted putting the CSS files in app/assets/stylesheets and the images in app/assets/images, relying on the default import by application.js, but the images did not display on the website as expected.

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Answer №1

It is recommended that you add every third-party library to the designated vendor/assets folder. Once added, determine whether the files should be placed in the js or css subfolder.

After organizing the files, navigate to either the application.css or application.js file within the app/assets javascripts or stylesheets directories and require the specific library you wish to use.

For example, if using a library named angular-growl-notifications.min located in vendor/assets/javascripts, include 

#= require angular-growl-notifications.min
in the application.js file.

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