conversion to HAML / future design?

[Thomas R. Koll]

Hi everybody,

I've pushed my last changes for the SASS and HAML conversion of lovd by less.

please do me that huge favour, clone it, test it and let me know about
anything gone wrong.
http://github.com/TomK32/lovd-by-less

My next step is to give it a much cleaner style and design,
white-label in the truest sense.
I'm also collecting ideas about theme capabilities that are
a) overwriting views and
b) custom stylesheets
Later requires a very strict guides for element ids and classes in the views.

I've done both in a SaaS app of mine but I'm curious if anyone
has different suggestions on that topic.

For changing functionality it might be interesting to either
add hooks or switch many controllers to make_resourceful (if possible)
and thus have a much slimmer structure.
Helpers are much easier to extend and everything with new models should
go in as an engine (expect a first one from me very soon).

ciao, tom

[Christoph Jasinski]

Hi,

how about extend the core with cool features like groups, ...., but put them into "customized" rake tasks. That would leave the core untouched but at the same time would throttle the development on one hand and make it easier for newbies to ruby and rails on the other.

I don't really like the design, but i think it shall motivate people to change it. Because I'm not a designed I end up buying a nice design at themeforest (www.themeforest.com). You get a template from $5-$35. The adaptation isn't easy but well, at least you don't have to code that much, lovd did it for you.

Cheers,

Chris