How to use Bootstrap with Scaffold and Rails

Make a new rails app

• Generate a new rails app, but skip using spring, and tell it to use postgresql as the database

rails new bootstrap-rails --skip-spring -d postgresql

Go into the rails app directory

cd bootstrap-rails

Edit the gemfile

atom Gemfile

Add these gems:

gem 'haml-rails'
gem 'bootstrap-generators'

Remove these gems:

• Remove the entry that says gem 'jbuilder'

Then bundle to update our gems

bundle

Then we can install the bootstrap scaffold/templates

• For HAML with SCSS

  rails generate bootstrap:install --template-engine=haml
  
  /bin/rm app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
  

• For ERB with SCSS

  rails generate bootstrap:install --stylesheet-engine=scss
  

Ensure SPRING is stopped to make sure rails changes are picked up

spring stop

Now we can generate a scaffold for a model

rails generate scaffold Term name definition author

Lets create our database, migration, and seed

rake db:create db:migrate db:seed

Now we can launch the app and see nice bootstrap styling