#328 Twitter Bootstrap Basics

Feb 28, 2012 | 10 minutes | Views, Plugins

Twitter Bootstrap can help make beautiful web apps quickly by providing you with useful CSS and JavaScript. Here you will learn how to include it into Rails with the twitter-bootstrap-rails gem.

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