Accio Bower
Bower asset processor for Rails 4/5, supporting CSS/JS URL Rewriting (images, fonts, etc.), and production Hashes/Digests.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile
:
gem 'accio_bower'
And this line to a new/existing .bowerrc
file:
{"directory": "vendor/assets/bower_components"}
If you DO NOT yet have a bower.json
file:
$ bundle install
$ bower init # follow instructions
$ bower install --save A-BOWER-PKG-YOU-WANT
If you ALREADY have a bower.json
file:
$ rm -rf bower_components
$ bundle install
$ bower install
To include CSS/JS files in your application
Require the name of the file under the vendor/assets/bower_components
path.
For example, to include font-awesome
in application.css
*= require 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min'
Configuration
Ruby Initializer
app/config/initializers/bower.rb
Rails.application.config.accio_bower.components = [
Rails.root.join('vendor', 'assets', 'bower_components')
]
Rails.application.config.accio_bower.extensions = %w[
png gif jpg jpeg ttf svg eot woff woff2
]
Environment Variables
- BOWER_PREFIX
- default: none - Path prefix for Bower asset URL substitutions, handy for unique CDN setups.
config.action_controller.asset_host
applies as normal.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.