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ABOUT SASS AND COMPASS
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This directory includes Sass versions of Zen's CSS files.
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Sass is a language that is just normal CSS plus some extra features, like
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variables, nested rules, math, mixins, etc. If your stylesheets are written in
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Sass, helper applications can convert them to standard CSS so that you can
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include the CSS in the normal ways with your theme.
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To learn more about Sass, visit: http://sass-lang.com
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Compass is a helper library for Sass. It includes libraries of shared mixins, a
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package manager to add additional extension libraries, and an executable that
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can easily convert Sass files into CSS.
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To learn more about Compass, visit: http://compass-style.org
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DEVELOPING WITH SASS AND COMPASS
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Zen 7.x-5.0 was developed with the latest version of Sass and Compass (at the
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time!) Newer versions are not compatible with Zen's Sass files. To ensure you
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are using the correct version of Sass and Compass, you will need to use the
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"bundle" command which will read Zen's Gemfile to ensure the proper versions are
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used when compiling your CSS. To install the correction versions of Sass and
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Compass, go to the root directory of your sub-theme and type:
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bundle install
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You will also need to prefix any compass commands with "bundle exec". For
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example, type "bundle exec compass compile" instead of just "compass compile".
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To automatically generate the CSS versions of the scss while you are doing theme
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development, you'll need to tell Compass to "watch" the sass directory so that
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any time a .scss file is changed it will automatically generate a CSS file in
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your sub-theme's css directory:
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bundle exec compass watch <path to your sub-theme's directory>
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If you are already in the root of your sub-theme's directory, you can simply
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type: bundle exec compass watch
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While using generated CSS with Firebug, the line numbers it reports will not
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match the .scss file, since it references the generated CSS file's lines, not
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the line numbers of the "source" sass files. How then do we debug? Sourcemaps to
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the rescue! To find the oringial, newer browsers have support for sourcemap
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files (*.map). These files are used by the built-in development tools of newer
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browsers to map the generated line to the SCSS source. When in development mode,
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Zen can be set to generate sourcemap files. Edit config.rb, and uncomment:
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sourcemap=true
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Enabling and using sourcemap files (*.map) in your browser
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In short, Open Developer tools, go to settings, and enable an option to the
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effect of: 'view original sources' or 'Enable CSS source maps'.
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* Firefox: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/02/live-editing-sass-and-less-in-the-firefox-developer-tools/
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* Chrome: https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/css-preprocessors#toc-enabling-css-source-maps
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* IE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ie/dn255007%28v=vs.85%29#source_maps
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MOVING YOUR CSS TO PRODUCTION
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Once you have finished your sub-theme development and are ready to move your CSS
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files to your production server, you'll need to tell sass to update all your CSS
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files and to compress them (to improve performance). Note: the Compass command
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will only generate CSS for .scss files that have recently changed; in order to
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force it to regenerate all the CSS files, you can use the Compass' clean command
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to delete all the generated CSS files.
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- Delete all CSS files by running: bundle exec compass clean
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- Edit the config.rb file in your theme's directory and uncomment this line by
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deleting the "#" from the beginning:
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#environment = :production
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- Regenerate all the CSS files by running: bundle exec compass compile
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And don't forget to turn on Drupal's CSS aggregation. :-) |