rharriso/bower-rails

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1450 stars · 125 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Ruby gem that adds Bower package management support to Rails projects via a Bundler-like DSL (Bowerfile) or bower., plus rake tasks for installing and updating frontend dependencies. It integrates Bower-managed assets into the Rails asset pipeline under lib and vendor directories.

Use cases

• manage bower dependencies in a rails app
• install frontend libraries into vendor assets
• use a ruby DSL to declare bower packages
• rake tasks to install and update bower components
• include bower packages in the asset pipeline

When to choose

• you maintain a legacy Rails app still using Bower for frontend assets
• you want a Bundler-style DSL for declaring frontend dependencies in Rails

When to avoid

• you are starting a new Rails project - use npm/yarn/jsbundling instead since Bower is deprecated
• your project does not use Ruby on Rails

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

package-manager build-tool developer-tools web-development frontend developer-tools ruby rails bower asset-pipeline rake-tasks frontend-assets web-server

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