Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, Second Edition

Chapter 5. Filling in the Layout

In the process of taking a brief tour of Ruby in Chapter 4, we learned about including the application stylesheet into the sample application—but, as noted in Section 4.3.4, this stylesheet is currently empty. In this chapter, we’ll change this by incorporating the Bootstrap framework into our application, and then we’ll add some custom styles of our own.¹ We’ll also start filling in the layout with links to the pages (such as Home and About) that we’ve created so far (Section 5.1). Along the way, we’ll learn about partials, Rails routes, and the asset pipeline, including an introduction to Sass (Section 5.2). We’ll also refactor the tests from Chapter 3 using the latest RSpec techniques. We’ll end by taking a ...