Frederick Cheung wrote: > On Jan 15, 3:02 pm, Alpha Blue <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks guys - I appreciate both of your responses. >> >> Marnen, I did look at liquid previously and did so again this morning. >> However, while I like what the developers are trying to do with certain >> features, it's not for me. > > As Marnen said you may want to reconsider - mephisto for example uses > liquid for themes and so on and you can change those on the fly > > >> So, my first decision is how to dynamically modify the assets_dir. I >> know that assets can be modified through URLs (CDNs), but again, I'm >> just now touching into looking through quite a bit of code to make sure >> I understand what is going on step by step. Then, I'll create some test >> code to play with. >> > > I wonder whether you're overthinking things slightly. If you had a > helper called current_theme_path that returned the path to the current > theme (eg themes/default/ initially, themes/minimalist/ etc... > > then you should be able to stuff like style_sheet_tag > (current_theme_path + 'blah.css') or image_tag(current_theme_path + > 'heading.png') > > Fred
Thanks Fred, that's good info. When I start to get involved into deeper areas of rails, I do tend to overthink things initially. As I become more familiar with the environment, I scale my thoughts back considerably. I'm going to test out a few of your ideas and see how it works out. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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