I agree that if you're using HTML5 boilerplate or similar it shouldn't be something you include from gems. Boilerplate is somewhere to start, it lets you get a sane set of HTML5 defaults and a normalisation css. If you're using Twitter Bootstrap you similarly get a grid framework and default styles.
You should definitely tear them apart and change things. The way I normally start a new rails project is: 1. Copy HTML5BP index.html into layouts/application.html and then add yields and asset includes where I want them 2. Copy Modernizr into lib/assets/javascripts 3. Copy HTML5BP normalise.css into lib/assets/stylesheets 4. Modify my app/assets/javascripts/application.js to include modernizr first 5. Modify my app/assets/stylesheets/application.css to include normalise first Then as I go along I further customise, remove and add lines to the layout. - Ben On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 10:05 AM, Andrew Stone wrote: > I asked a similar question a while back: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rails-Oceania/boilerplate/rails-oceania/AH6yUyZKHHI/crUKG2QSE4MJ > Answer seems to be what ever works for you... ultimately it's about learning > CSS3 and HTML5 (not about rails/gems per se). > > I ended up going with Twitter Bootstrap, mixed in some media queries from > '320 and Up' and added Font Awesome, happy with the result. > > Regards, > Stonie. > > On 28 July 2012 08:20, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > You could just use the index.html file from H5BL as your app template, > > either as an ERB file, or convert it to whatever template format you're > > using. > > > > Then link the styles along of course. > > > > > > On Friday, July 27, 2012, Luke Hamilton wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I was just wondering if other people are following the > > > html5boilerplate.com (http://html5boilerplate.com) way in their Rails 3.2 > > > apps, and if so what methods are they using? i.e just building it in gem > > > by gem, or all by hand or some of the other boilerplate gem's that exist. > > > > > > > > > Love to hear about people's experiences and recommendations. > > > > > > Thanks heaps! > > > Regards,Luke Hamilton > > > > > > Mobile: +61 0430223558 > > > Skype: lukekhamilton > > > Twitter: @lukekhamilton > > > Email: [email protected] > > > > > > “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:rails-oceania%[email protected]). > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
