Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM, Rails, and You. Twitter Bootstrap, Less, and Sass: Understanding Your Options for Rails 3.1 » RubySource. By now, we’ve all seen Twitter Bootstrap – it’s a great CSS and Javascript library open sourced by Twitter that makes it easy to produce a very polished looking site, with fantastic support for layout, navigation, typography, and much more. Twitter Bootstrap is based on Less.js, the popular dynamic CSS scripting language written by Alexis Sellier or @cloudhead. Less.js, like Node.js, is implemented completely with Javascript. While Less is based on Javascript and not Ruby, some great work has been done just in the last couple of months to make it easy to set up Twitter Bootstrap in your Rails 3.1 app using a variety of different approaches.
Today I’m going to review the basics of Twitter Bootstrap, and then take a close look at the following gems and libraries: less-rails-bootstrap, sass-twitter-bootstrap, bootstrap-sass and bootstrap-rails. Twitter Bootstrap basics $ git clone $ cp bootstrap/bootstrap.css path/to/app/assets/stylesheets/. Git Wiki. Ruby Scripting Resources. Ruby on Rails Screencasts. Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials | Learning Ruby On Rails. A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful: Rolling with Ruby on Rails – Curtis Hibbs of ONLamp.com offers his first excellent introduction to Ruby on Rails.
This is the article that got me really excited about RoR.2. Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2 – The sequel to Curtis Hibbs excellent series of articles.3. Four Days on Rails (PDF) – a great tutorial that is broken down into simple tasks that you can do over a four day period. To be quite honest, this tutorial only takes about 2 hours, but nonetheless it is very well organized! Hey, Ruby on Rails Fans! UPDATE, JUNE 2009: Want more up-to-date tutorials on Ruby programming? Happy Rails developing and if you have any other tutorials that you’d like to share, please leave them in the comments! Tagged as: ruby on rails, tutorial. 20 Ruby on Rails Tuts to Rule Them All. Today, we'll review twenty incredible Ruby on Rails tutorials that every developer should consider reading.
Whether you're a beginner who prefers video tutorials or an experienced dev, you'll find an applicable tutorial here! 1. Try Ruby! If you're going to have to learn a brand new language, why not learn it interactively? The Try Ruby! Hands on tutorial is a step-by-step guide that shows you the basics of the Ruby language in 15-minutes. 2. This is the definitive tutorial on Rails. 3. If you're a Rails developer, a Mac is an excellent choice for development as Rails comes shipped with Leopard. And you're ready to start building apps. Apple has a lengthy document on the benefits of using a Mac for Rails development, as well as code examples and best use cases. 4. If you've got a whole day set aside to learn Rails, the One-Day Rails course from UC Berkeley is fantastic. 5.
Again, not a true Rails tutorial, Why's (Poigant) Guide to Ruby is a fantastic and, ahem... odd way to learn Ruby.