Problems working through Railstutorial.org tutorials

I'm having trouble replicating the results of this tutorial ( http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/filling-in-the-layout#top ), namely making Bootstrap gem work (section 5.1.2). I couldn’t find any existing issues on its Github page, and I can’t trace additional error messages that would be helpful to solving this problem. I'm lost at the point where I don't even know what printouts or files I should include to ask for help on the problem (I walked through some trials with the folks on IRC and there were still a lot of possibilities of where it could've gone wrong). I wonder if there are any RoR folks in this message board who's located in Vancouver, BC. I'd be happy and willing to compensate accordingly for your time helping me. Please respond if you're located there and interested in this offer.

Thanks in advance!