SASS: The Better, More Powerful CSS - Intridea Design Blog
I am a huge fan of SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) for styling Rails applications. I have been using it on all of my projects for quite a while now and have developed some great techniques that make it much easier to organize, write, and read stylesheets in an application
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Module: Sass
Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that a...
Managing vendor libraries with the Rails asset pipeline
The benefit of the Rails asset pipeline is that it compiles your stylesheets and javascripts to a single file, respectively. However, the consequences are startling if you don't understand them. Among others, the raw asset pipeli...
Detect the current Rails environment from JavaScript or CSS
Detecting if a Javascript is running under Selenium WebDriver is super-painful. It's much easier to detect the current Rail...
Normalising Designs For Better Quality CSS
Awesome slide deck about taking liberties with design requirements in order to keep the CSS simple.
Generate CSS Sprites on the Fly with Lemonade
Lemonade’s goal as a sprite generator is to be incredible easy to use, so you’ll use ist for every project—just because there’s no overhead. It needs no configuration, no Rake task, no Photoshop, just a little change in your Sass or SCSS files.
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous.
rhulse's rails-css-views at master - GitHub
This gem is designed to provide CSS views to Rails, and a process to concatenate and minify these files to one file for production.
better rails app restart with the passenger restart-app tool
With this command you can initiate an application restart without touching restart.txt. Unlike touching restart.txt, this tool initiates the restart immediately instead of on the next request. [http://blog.phusion.nl/2014/01/02/phusion-passenger...
Learning from the iPhone's failure as a gaming platform: gem-session.com blog
If we want mobile applications to stay around as a sustainable business, we need to be more honest about the strengths and weaknesses of a touchscreen UI, rather than salivating about an imaginary realm of unnamed possibilities.