Make BP a Ruby Gem

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I love the move towards building and supporting Blueprint using Ruby.  It would 
be great if we 
could overlay the ability to build a ruby gem for Blueprint.  Doing so would 
allow for things like:

- Install BP Gem
- Keep the gem up to date using standard ruby gem versioning
- Run a 'rake' command from inside the RAILS ROOT of any rails app to install 
BP CSS.  Running it 
after a new version of the gem is installed would keep it up to date.

This would still allow of course non-rails users to still download and install 
BP the traditional way 
(I think it would remain unchanged, there would just be additional code in the 
source dir to 
specify the gem config).

Dr. Nic's NewGem tool is great for getting this setup relatively easily.

http://newgem.rubyforge.org/

Ideally, the BP CSS files, Test Files, and docs could be built from Ruby 
source.  You might 
investigate SASS which is part of the HAML templating system.  If you did this, 
it would also allow 
having a ruby generator bundled as part of the gem.  The generator would let 
you specify the 
num columns, etc for a custom BP install.

http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/docs/rdoc/classes/Sass.html

Original issue reported on code.google.com by glenn.re...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2008 at 11:30

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Glenn,

The upcoming BP 0.7 will handle these suggestions.  Although it won't be 
distributed as a gem, this provides 
similar functionality to not only RoR developers developers using other 
languages.  My write-up is located here: 
http://jdclayton.com/blueprints_compress_a_walkthrough.html 

Original comment by joshua.c...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2008 at 2:33

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I think the changes sound great.  My primary motivation for the suggestion of 
gem'ifying was to gain the 
versioning capabilities of gems.   I suppose though that you can achieve the 
same effect by checking out the 
repository and updating periodically.

With my rails bias it would be nice to have this installed as a gem or plugin 
though, which would allow me to 
bundle and version the 'generator' and its config file with my application 
code.  I would gain the benfefit of 
knowing exactly how my config looked at any point in the version history of the 
app.  Would have to take a 
look that the plugin layout is still compatible with the friendly layout that 
non-rails users have today.  Just a 
thought for you to chew on.

Thanks for the hard work.

Original comment by glenn.re...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2008 at 5:55

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Original comment by horst.gu...@gmail.com on 13 Aug 2008 at 5:43

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Closing.

Original comment by glenn.re...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2008 at 7:51

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