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I totally agree. It's true even for us, experienced Web guys (and gals), in this mess ruled by packages and their managers. For example, I am trying to make my
by gedrap 12y ago
I totally agree. It's true even for us, experienced Web guys (and gals), in this mess ruled by packages and their managers.
For example, I am trying to make my first Rails app outside a tutorial.
Okay, I want to use bootstrap. Should I use gem? Guess that's the ruby way. Okay seems like there a few of them. Tried one, another one. Doesn't work. Don't know why, since I am just copying half-cryptic stuff because I am new to Rails.
A friend suggests to use Bower. It's easier. Right! I had totally forgotten about bower, it rocks! Google: bower rails. Okay, there is that thing sprockets which I apparently need to configure. Googled, a few blog posts opened, they offer a bit different advice each, let's try. Doesn't work. Nope. Not really... Google: bower rails bootstrap sprockets. And yay! Works.
Two hours later, I have included Bootstrap. Properly.
- joevandyk 12y agoDownload bootstrap css, put into app/assets/bootstrap. Should be all that's needed.
- gedrap 12y agoYeah, it would have worked. But I am too lazy (among real disadvantages) to download all the libraries manually :) Real disadvantages such as updating becomes so boring that you will probably never do that. And 'bower search <something>' followed by 'bower install <found it!>' is less distracting than googling and unzipping etc. Being lazy pays off.
- Cacti 12y agoIf you're a programmer and you can't even bother to download some files and unzip them, then... Lazy pays off because you innovate in the hopes of automating something, not that you just are actually completely lazy.
- igravious 12y agoAnd repeat for every update of Bootstrap? Why?