# Plugins / libraries for user-specific CSS?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugins-libraries-for-user-specific-css/173122>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 3, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugins-libraries-for-user-specific-css/173122 "2009-08-03T16:07:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugins-libraries-for-user-specific-css/173122/1 "2009-08-03T16:07:26Z")

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Hi all,

I’m creating a social networking site which (obviously) will be mostly  
user-created content. I’d like for users to also be able to have some  
control over the look of the site - ie for them to choose ‘skins’ or  
create a custom stylesheet overriding some of the basic CSS attributes  
so they can choose their preferred font, etc. In an ideal world, I’d  
also let them choose from a ‘menu’ of certain elements so that they  
could specify a minimum font size, a colour scheme, etc and mix and  
match rather than having to apply an ‘off-the-peg’ template.

I feel sure that I’m not the first person to want to allow some user  
control over CSS in a Rails app, but I’m not turning up much in the  
way of help via Google. Can anyone point me to any good tutorials /  
plugins / libraries which might help me get started with this? I’ve  
given my ideal scenario above just on the offchance that some perfect  
solution exists, but really even a very basic example would be useful

- I don’t want to reinvent the wheel if there are also some useful  
models in existence.

Thanks in advance!