Newbie: Blueprint, Ruby??!?!?!? I have no idea, Please help

[HoneyBee]

I am new to this and amtrying to build a worpress blog site that has
5 columns.


The Main column spreads over 3 columns and then 2 sidebars for a
column each. After main blog content I want to split the main column
into 3. So I'll have 5 columns(Hope that makes sense)


I think that this can be acheived in Ruby using a 25 column. Using a
grid generator I get the following

No of columns: 25
column width: 30
Margin width: 10
Page width: 990

So I have set up a settings file and put the following in it

# refer to http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.1/ for clarification on YAML
collections
project1:
path: /htdocs/wp-content/themes/Tutorial/css
namespace: ns-span-25
custom_css:
ie.css:
- custom-ie.css
print.css:
- docs.css
- my-print-styles.css
screen.css:
- subfolder-of-stylesheets/sub_css.css
custom_layout:
column_count: 25
column_width: 30
gutter_width: 10
plugins:
- fancy-type
- buttons


I believe i am supposed to recompress using this command

ruby compress.rb -p project1

However, I have no idea where to put this command. I have tried
reading blueprint resources on the subject but each seem to be talking
in a foreign lang and do not seem to describe the exact steps I need
to take to run the scirpt. (I'm probably wrong but honestly I don't
get it)

I have downloaded Ruby and I have opened the compress.rb file. Doing
so opens some sort of "black command box" which runs and then closes


Please help, where am I going wrong and what am I missing out.
Your help is extremely grateful considering I have be trying to figure
this out for ages...too long.

[Christian Montoya]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:02 AM, HoneyBee <ab...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have downloaded Ruby and I have opened the compress.rb file. Doing
> so opens some sort of "black command box" which runs and then closes
>

If you did this then the compressor probably worked and the files in
blueprint/ are your customized compressed files. Look through the
files and see if they match your custom grid.

--
--
Christian Montoya
mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

[HoneyBee]

>
> If you did this then the compressor probably worked and the files in
> blueprint/ are your customized compressed files. Look through the
> files and see if they match your custom grid.
>
> --
> --
> Christian Montoya
> mappdev.com :: christianmontoya.net

Thankyou for your reply Christian.


I checked the files the screen.css shows as having 950 page width and
24 columns. whilst I am trying to achieve 25 cols and 990 width. Any
suggestions?