Cid Dennis

Getting Twitter Bootstrap to work with Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline

While converting my app from rails 3.0 to 3.1 I had an issue getting bootstrap working with the asset pipe line after digging a while here is what I had to do.

 

In application.css

/**

= require ./bootstrap/bootstrap*

= require_tree ./smoothness*=

require_self
*/

Rename bootstrap.less to bootstrap.css.less.erb

In bootstrap.css.less.erb  remove what is there and put in

<%= File.read "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap/reset.css.less" %>

<%= File.read "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap/preboot.css.less" %>

<%= File.read "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap/scaffolding.css.less" %>
<%= File.read "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap/type.css.less" %>

<%= File.read "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap/forms.css.less" %>

<%= File.read "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap/tables.css.less" %>

<%= File.read "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap/patterns.css.less" %>

 

Next rename all bootstrap files to *.css.less

 

Then in my GemFile

 

group :assets do 

gem 'sass-rails', "  ~> 3.1.0" 

gem 'coffee-rails', "~> 3.1.0" 

gem 'less' 

gem 'uglifier'

end

 

 

That was it.

 

Singleton Jobs in Delayed Job

So I am working on a project where I want a job to run only if there is not one running with the same worker class.   So I monkey patch the Delayed::Job class to have a new method called job_exist?(job).

 

 

Delayed::Job.class_eval do  

    def self.job_exist?(job)    

            return Delayed::Job.find(:first, :conditions => ["handler like ?", "%" + job.name + "%"])  

    end

end

 

Now I can do code that looks like this 

Delayed::Job.enqueue LoadImages.new if !Delayed::Job.job_exist?(LoadImages)

 

I know this is not perfect but for jobs that are considered singletons it works well. 

 

 

Rails for Zombies

Learning Rails for the first time should be fun, and Rails for Zombies allows you to get your feet wet without having to worry about configuration. You'll watch five videos, each followed by exercises where you'll be programming Rails in your browser.

via railsforzombies.org

 

This is a very cool site.   You first watch a video of how to do something then you do some labs on what you watched.  It is very interactive and the real time feed back of the labs is sweet.