Thanks a lot. I'll check if I can get it working and probably report back
somewhere tomorrow.

Jeroen

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:

> It depends on how the Rails middleware stack is set up. Somewhere in there
> is the Sass middleware, which will regenerate the CSS whenever it's hit.
> However, if Rails puts the middleware for serving public/ higher in the
> stack than the Sass middleware, you'll get the 404 before Sass ever has a
> change to regenerate anything.
>
> I'll check it out when I have some time, but I'm not sure exactly when that
> will be. You may be able to get a quick fix by manually using
> Sass::Plugin::Rack in your config.ru, though.
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Jeroen van Dijk <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Maybe we are talking about something different, because for me it really
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> Just to be certain we are about the same things, this is what I do. I
>> remove my screen.css and request my screen.css on the command line:
>>
>> curl localhost:3000/stylesheets/screen.css
>>
>> The first time I do this I get the 404 page, the second time curl shows me
>> the stylesheet. So apparently a normal Rails request is needed to have the
>> stylesheet be regenerated.
>>
>> Is this a bug then and should this work? Or did you mean something
>> different?
>>
>> Either way, would love to have this working. Thanks for the suggestion of
>> #update_stylesheets  will have a look at it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeroen
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> That should definitely be using the Rack middleware. It's possible that
>>> Rails has some static-file middleware that takes precedence, though.
>>>
>>> In any case, calling Sass::Plugin.update_stylesheets will intelligently
>>> update any stylesheets that need it.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Jeroen van Dijk <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your quick response. I'm using Rails indeed, running on edge.
>>>> So you are saying that a bare stylesheet request should work?
>>>>
>>>> Here is some info from my Gemfile:
>>>>
>>>> gem "rails",    :git => "git://github.com/rails/rails.git", :ref =>
>>>> "53b34e84762b7f2d6b64"
>>>> haml (3.0.13)
>>>> compass (0.10.2)
>>>>
>>>> Should I update one of the above?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I assume you're using Sass within Rails, or some other Ruby framework?
>>>>> If you're using a recent version of Sass and Rails, Sass should
>>>>> automatically hook itself in as Rack middleware, and will update the
>>>>> stylesheets on each request. What versions are you using?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Jeroen van Dijk <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been using Sass (and Haml) for a while now and I'm a very happy
>>>>>> user. Thanks for all the work you guys have put in it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Recently I came across livereload (http://github.com/mockko/
>>>>>> livereload). Really useful tool for any web developer. It actively
>>>>>> monitors your files and reloads your page or assets without touching
>>>>>> your browser manually. This works best for normal stylesheets and
>>>>>> javascript files where it is just a reload of the specific asset file.
>>>>>> For Sass this is different though. The whole page has to reload to
>>>>>> update the stylesheets. I have been looking into this but I haven't
>>>>>> seen a way around this. It seems that Sass needs a complete page
>>>>>> request to generate the css files. For example, I removed the css
>>>>>> files and did a curl request to just get the css page. This resulted
>>>>>> in a 404.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So my question is, is there a way to have Sass regenerate new css
>>>>>> files solely based on a request of a css file? Say localhost:/3000/
>>>>>> stylesheets/screen.css?new_time_stamp_here . If not, what would be the
>>>>>> fastest way to regenerate the Sass file. Currently, using Compass, I
>>>>>> just call a command line command : `compass compile` from within the
>>>>>> Ruby process, but this can be done faster I hope/assume.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking forward to any new insights.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jeroen
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> NB I'm using Sass with Compass, but I'm assuming the root cause/
>>>>>> question lies with Sass.
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