How can you configure Rails to use blueprint-css instead of the default scaffolding css?

Question

What changes do you need to make to a Rails project to configure blueprintcss as the default stylesheet to be used when you generate scaffolding instead of scaffold.css?

Answer 1

I'd recommend writing your own generator, but if you want to alter the default you can:

1 - For a single app: Freeze rails and change the stylesheet the scaffold generator uses.

railsapp/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generators/generators/components/scaffold/templates/style.css

2 - For all apps: Change the same style.css file in your systems rails installation.

Answer 2

Substitute your own scaffolding generation code. Instructions are here (with the caveat that they may be out of date).

An easier alternative may be to write a Rake action to do textual substitution in the (normally) generated source.

Answer 3

Look into Rails Templates.

You can write one to do much more than replace the css in a rails app. YOu can make it install gems, freeze rails, all kinds of things. Take a look at http://youvegotrails.com for an idea of what you can do.