jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails-asset

Soon I will send a pull request to https://github.com/jaimie-van-santen/jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails and maybe can quit the work on this gem.

The implementation of this gem is heavily inspired from https://github.com/joliss/jquery-ui-rails

This gem packages the jQuery UI Bootstrap 1.10.2 assets (JavaScripts, stylesheets, and images) for the Rails 3.1+ asset pipeline, so you never have to download a custom package through the web interface again.

Also check out the jquery-ui-sass-rails gem, which allows you to override theme variables with Sass.

In your Gemfile, add:

gem 'jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails-asset'

To require all jQuery UI modules, add the following to your application.js:

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require twitter/bootstrap
//= require jquery-ui-bootstrap

Also add the jQuery UI CSS to your application.css:

/*
 *= require twitter/bootstrap
 *= require twitter/bootstrap/responsive
 *= require jquery-ui-bootstrap
 */

All images required by jQuery UI are automatically served through the asset pipeline, so you are good to go! For example, this code will add a datepicker:

$(function() {
  $('.datepicker').datepicker();
});

The jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails-asset gem should work in Ruby 1.8.7 apps. To run the rake tasks, you need Ruby 1.9 however.

git clone git://github.com/applicat/jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails-asset.git
cd jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails-asset
git submodule update --init
bundle install
bundle exec rake # rebuild assets

Most of the code lives in the Rakefile. Pull requests are more than welcome!

The jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails-asset repository is contributor-friendly and has a git submodule containing the official jquery-ui-bootstrap. This way it's easy to hack the jQuery UI Bootstrap code:

cd jquery-ui-bootstrap
git checkout master
... hack-hack-hack ...
bundle exec rake  # rebuild assets based on your changes

Assuming your app's Gemfile points at your jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails-asset checkout (gem 'jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails-asset', :path => '~/path/to/jquery-ui-bootstrap-rails-asset'), all you need to do now is refresh your browser, and your changes to jQuery UI are live in your Rails application.

As a smoke test, a dummy application is available in the repository under the spec directory, which displays a check mark and a datepicker to make sure the assets load correctly:

cd spec/dummy
bundle
rails s

Now point your browser at http://localhost:3000/.