From 71d9b14b4b5625529722f987fa2a85a746055e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Sawchuk <sawchuk@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:13:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #18.

---
 tasks/bower-install.js | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tasks/bower-install.js b/tasks/bower-install.js
index 85e507f..9d25465 100644
--- a/tasks/bower-install.js
+++ b/tasks/bower-install.js
@@ -29,13 +29,30 @@ var findBowerJSON = function () {
 };
 
 
+/**
+ * Try to use a `.bowerrc` file to find a custom directory. If it doesn't exist,
+ * we're going with "bower_components".
+ *
+ * @ return {string} the path to the bower component directory
+ */
+var findBowerDirectory = function () {
+  var directory = 'bower_components';
+
+  if (grunt.file.isFile('.bowerrc')) {
+    directory = grunt.file.readJSON('.bowerrc').directory || 'bower_components';
+  }
+
+  return directory;
+};
+
+
 module.exports = function (grunt) {
   grunt.registerMultiTask('bower-install', 'Inject all components in your HTML file.', function () {
 
     this.requiresConfig(['bower-install', this.target, 'html']);
 
     wiredep({
-      directory: grunt.file.readJSON('.bowerrc').directory || 'bower_components',
+      directory: findBowerDirectory(),
       bowerJson: findBowerJSON(),
       ignorePath: this.data.ignorePath,
       htmlFile: this.data.html