Additional fixes

- using .bowerrc for managing bower directories with plain bower.json
- using before_initialize instead of after_initialize at bower-rails/railties.rb
- group.last instead of group.pop

lib/bower-rails/dsl.rb

@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ def final_assets_path
     end   
 
     def group_assets_path group
-      group_options = Hash === group.last ? group.pop : {}
-      group_options[:assets_path] || @assets_path 
+      group_options = Hash === group.last ? group.last : {:assets_path => @assets_path}
+      group_options[:assets_path]
     end 
 
     private

lib/bower-rails/railtie.rb

@@ -6,12 +6,20 @@ module BowerRails
   class Railtie < Rails::Railtie
     railtie_name :bower
 
-    BowerRails::Dsl.config = {:root_path => Rails.root}
-    dsl = BowerRails::Dsl.evalute(File.join("Jsfile"))
+    if File.exist?(File.join("Jsfile"))
+      BowerRails::Dsl.config = {:root_path => Rails.root}
+      dsl = BowerRails::Dsl.evalute(File.join("Jsfile"))
 
-    config.after_initialize do |app|
-      dsl.final_assets_path.map do |assets_root, assets_path|
-        app.config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join(assets_root, assets_path, "bower_components")
+      config.before_initialize do |app|
+        dsl.final_assets_path.map do |assets_root, assets_path|
+          app.config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join(assets_root, assets_path, "bower_components")
+        end
+      end
+    else
+      config.before_initialize do |app|
+        ["lib", "vendor"].each do |dir|
+          app.config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join(dir, 'assets', 'bower_components')
+        end
       end
     end
 

lib/tasks/bower.rake

@@ -84,17 +84,23 @@ def perform_command remove_components = true
       FileUtils.rm_rf("bower_components") if remove_components
 
       #create bower json
-      File.open("bower.json","w") do |f|
+      File.open("bower.json", "w") do |f|
         f.write(data.to_json)
       end
 
+      #create .bowerrc
+      File.open(".bowerrc", "w") do |f|
+        f.write(JSON.pretty_generate({:directory => "bower_components"}))
+      end
+
       #run command
       yield
 
       #remove bower file
       FileUtils.rm("bower.json")
 
-    end if data
-
+      #remove .bowerrc
+      FileUtils.rm(".bowerrc")
+    end if data && !data["dependencies"].empty?
   end
 end