Totally right, it's a front-end theme toolkit, but relies on many dependencies to be compiled (check the gemspec file). Same question goes for the `twitter-boot

Totally right, it's a front-end theme toolkit, but relies on many dependencies to be compiled (check the gemspec file). Same question goes for the `twitter-bootstrap-rails` gem and a few others. Saves a lot of time and hassle to add it as a gem and forget about it!