From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T17:27:33+09:00
Subject: Re: eRuby and CSS

John Joyce wrote:
> Does eRuby parse CSS ?
I don't think that's quite the question you want to ask.  eRuby parses 
eruby templates to produce text files.  Those text files can be pretty 
much anything (CSS included).

> I'd like to be able to create style sheets that use variables for 
> repeated values like colors and borders.
> I'm curious if eRuby currently has this functionality or not.
> Is there some method to use the css link in an xhtml document to parse 
> the style sheet before sending it to the user-agent?
> I know it can be done with css embedded into pages, Blogger does this 
> with its PHP templating,  but that is something I'd rather not do.
> Or is this just more trouble than it's worth?
> 

Take a look at http://rcss.rubyforge.org/ - I think it does what you're 
looking for.  It's for Rails, but it should be good education even if 
you can't use it directly.

-- 
Alex