Generating stylesheets for Rails

[Tom Stuart]

Hi,

It'd be handy for my deployment process to be able to generate all of
my stylesheets from Sass before any mongrels have a chance to start
up, not least because my "down for maintenance" page uses these
stylesheets. I've seen people talking about a haml:compile_sass task
in the context of Merb; does there already exist a comparable rake
task for Rails that I can get Capistrano to kick off at the right time?

Cheers,
-Tom

[Nathan Weizenbaum]

There's no built-in Rake task for it, but if you run "Sass::Plugin.update_stylesheets" via script/runner that should do it.

[scottwb]

Some time ago I ended up writing a small script that just traversed my
stylesheets directory tree calling the 'sass' command line tool on all
the .sass files, and invoked that script from a capistrano task as
part of deployment. That definitely works, but I like the sound of
this update_stylesheets method.

One thing I am not clear on is if Sass::Plugin.options (such
as :style) will be honored using this method.

[Nathan Weizenbaum]

Yes, if Sass::Plugin.options is properly set, it will be updated. It might be tricky to get it set in the right way in Rails, though.

[Chris Eppstein]

I do it like this for my website:

http://gist.github.com/59147

NOTE: This will only update those files where the sass file is newer than the corresponding css.

chris