Bootscaf: Easily Sexify Your Rails Scaffolds to use Bootstrap
I absolutely love the rails g scaffold command for new projects. But I can’t stand that there’s no easy way to output good-lookin’ bootstrap layouts by default. I also haven’t found a twitter bootstap gem that can go back to old scaffolds and just re-jigger them at any time. So we created Bootscaf, a gem that lets you run a command that seds all your scaffold view files to use bootstrap friendly classes. Best of all, it’s open-source. ☺
Preview
Here’s a little taste of what your scaffolds will end up looking like after running the gem’s bootscaf command.
Index pages get a make-over with sorting built-in.
Horizontal form layout for and applicable glyphicon for cancellation.
Clean, grid-based layout for the show page, and convenient action buttons.
Contextual action buttons in edit view as well.
Improved delete messaging and button placement.
Messaging on empty index pages.
How To Get Started
To make it easy, we’re going to keep all “how-to” on github, in the README.md.
Extras
There are a few conveniences added that we use in the vast majority of our projects. They are:
1) Helper css class names on the <body> element for page-specific CSS:
<body class=”controller-<%= controller.controller_name.dasherize %> action-<%= controller.action_name.dasherize %>”>
2) Google analytics if an environment variable is set:
ENV[“GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID”]
3) A click-to-select css selector for read-only inputs:
<input class=”select-all-on-click” type=”text” value=”long value” readonly>
4) Page <title>s set in views:
<% content_for :page_title do %>
Edit Model —
<% end %>
And that’s about it, for now!
Pull Requests More than Welcome
We open-sourced this so that others can improve it! We take Pull Requests seriously ☺
Enjoy!
Matt, from ThriveSmart
