#assetpipeline

[kazu69]

[devnuggets-blog]

semicolons in SASS can cause 500's

The Rails asset pipeline seems to choke and not give you a proper stack trace if you introduce a semi-colon into your sass. Weird. 

[allthingsror-blog]

Asset Pipeline

What is a manifest file ?

why is it commented ?

why are the commented lines throwing an error ?

How is this whole thing a part of the asset pipeline ?

what is a directive ? Directives test if variables exist or not.

why does it begin with //= ?

Terminology

master.css

master.js

Fingerprinting

Well basically, it is a set of directives

[fivetool]

Flatstrap in the pipeline

I'm a huge fan of Twitter Bootstrap. Being able to build a quick basic responsive scaffold for a Rails project is a huge help during the prototyping phase. For those projects where there isn't a separate budget for a mobile stylesheet, Bootstrap's responsive features provide developers with the capability to add some screen dimension-dependent behaviors. Bootstrap is easy to add to Rails with the gem twitter-bootstrap-rails. The gem provides some generators and view helpers that help integrate Bootstrap's features such as modal dialogs and breadcrumbs with Rails.

Non-designers don't use this term, but occasionally I get a response that Bootstrap-based prototypes are a bit too "lickable". For occasions when I need a design with more of a flat aesthetic but you still want the structure and JavaScript plugins from Bootstrap, there's LittleSpark's Flatstrap. Flatstrap is the latest Bootstrap with the rounded corners and gradients removed.

This weekend I pushed out the first version of flatstrap-rails. Flatstrap takes advantage of the helpers and generators of twitter-bootstrap-rails, but includes the Flatstrap CSS in the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline. Give it a try for those Rails projects where you want a flatter look.

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