Rails with Bower. Without bower-rails.

rails-with-bower.md

Checkout the blog post for the whole story.

Setup Bower and install components:

npm install -g bower
bower install

Before deploying to Heroku, switch to the multi buildpack:

heroku config:add BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-multi.git

Then deploy as usual!

.bowerrc

{
  "directory": "vendor/assets/components"
}

.buildpacks

https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby

.gitignore

/vendor/assets/components

application.rb

module MyApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    # ...
    config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("vendor","assets","components")
  end
end

bower.json

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "~2.1.0",
    "jquery-ujs": "~1.0.1"
  }
}

package.json

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "devDependencies": {
    "bower": "latest"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "./node_modules/bower/bin/bower install"
  }
}