Rails 3: Access to twitter bootstrap variables + mixins without importing it

Question

I\'m using Rails 3 for the first time (especially asset pipelining and less-rails-bootstrap), so I might be missing some really basic concept here. I\'ve tried two approaches fo

Answer 1

I figured out a possible way to do this without leading to (too much) repetition of CSS code.

application.css

/*
 *= require twitter/bootstrap
 *= require mystyles
 */

mystyles.css

@import "twitter/bootstrap/variables.less";
@import "twitter/bootstrap/mixins.less";
/* My styles come here, which use variables & mixins defined in twitter bootstrap code */