From: Andrew Stewart <boss@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T02:13:53+09:00
Subject: Re: eRuby and CSS



On 22 Mar 2007, at 15:16, John Joyce wrote:

> I basically want to have a CSS preprocessor, server-side of course.  
> (I'd actually like CSS3 to be finished and widespread, but that's  
> like watching rocks grow)
> This looks interesting. Perhaps.
> It's on the right track with variables to substitute in for  
> commonly used values. That's one of the big things lacking in CSS  
> now. But it doesn't seem as simple as it should/could be.

You might be interested in css_dryer, a plugin for Rails which  
supports variables and nesting.  There's no unusual syntax and the  
nesting makes the stylesheet a lot DRYer.

http://blog.airbladesoftware.com/2006/12/11/cssdryer-dry-up-your-css

Regards,
Andy Stewart