Get Gem vendor files in asset pipeline path

Question

I have created a gem with a vendor directory containing stylesheets and javascripts from bootstrap-sass and bootstrap itself.

The directory structure is bootstrap-sa

Answer 1

The problem was with my require_paths variable. The correct setting should have been:

s.require_paths = ["lib"]

Answer 2

i think the asset pipeline expects your files to be named like bootstrap.css.scss. and I'm not sure, but maybe you need to define a railtie for your gem for rails to find the vendored stylesheets

Answer 3

I had the same problem, I solved it adding a dummy engine. This way in rails 3.1 the assets path was added automatically to Rails.application.config.assets.paths.

Since Rails 3.0, if you want a gem to automatically behave as an engine, you have to specify an Engine for it somewhere inside your plugin’s lib folder.