Sprockets has had native Bower support for some time. In Rails 3.x, there is a version restriction that prevents upgrading to the latest version, but there is a 2.2.2.backport2 version you can use to get at all the new features: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16266528/how-to-manage-ja...

You can add a .bowerrc and bower.json file to your project and you'll be able to access those components easily: http://dev.af83.com/2013/01/02/managing-rails-assets-with-bo...