Website is no longer working

[Binnette]

Website http://www.lavishbootstrap.com/ is no longer working.

[JayGreentree]

It seems the project has been abandoned. No github updates in 3 years.

[Binnette]

This is a bad news 😢. This tools was very useful especially for lazy developers like me who simply want to customize a Bootstrap template easily 😉

[mousio]

On my Windows 10 system I finally got it working thanks to RailsInstaller, since it did not work out for me with WSL/Ubuntu 😞

I got it down to a few simple steps:

1. Install RailsInstaller and ImageMagick (version 6), order doesn't matter. Versions at the time of writing:

   • RailsInstaller-3.4.0 (Ruby 2.3)

     • Git installation is not required and can be unchecked
     • You can then extract lavish-master.zip (or git clone) to end up with e.g. C:\Sites\lavish\

   • ImageMagick-6.9.10-73-Q16-x86-dll (x86 version because of 32-bit RailsInstaller)

     • Tick the box to install the development headers and libraries
     • FFmpeg installation is not required and can be unchecked
     • (Other defaults should be OK, i.e. for this setup no need to have a space-less installation path)

2. Start Command Prompt with Ruby and Rails, but AFTER ImageMagick installation because of required environment variable changes.

   • You can check the path environment variable to verify the ImageMagick installation path is included:

     • echo %path%

   • You can also easily check the ruby and rails versions, like this:

     • ruby -v
     • rails -v

3. Perform some preparatory file manipulations:

   • Navigate to your site's folder:

     • cd lavish

   • Remove the lock file:

     • del Gemfile.lock

   • Edit the Gemfile:

     • notepad Gemfile
       • change the ruby version to your ruby version
       • remove rails version
       • remove rmagick version
       • add lines for tzinfo-data and tzinfo gems
       • add line for coffee-script-source, but the 1.8.0 version
       • modify line of sqlite3 gem to use the 1.3.13 version
     • resulting Gemfile

4. Get your website fired up:

   • one-time gem installation:

     • bundle install

   • every time you want to start the website:

     • rails s

Done! Now browse to localhost:3000 → It works! (on my machine) 😃

• with http and https URI's
• with local paths as well, though the thumbnail won't appear if it's not in C:\Sites\lavish\app\assets\images?
• with jpg, png etc.