Compress CSS

Ruby
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Hi,

Does anyone know of any script that can be used to compress css for
deployment. Im looking for something that can be used during the build
process rather than something you click to acheive it. Were currently
using jsmin for javascript, something like that for css would be ideal.

cheers,

Chris

2

Hi,

Have you looked at CSSTidy?

I’m thinking of using it myself, but I don’t have any experience with it

Kev

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Hi Kevin,

Looks like an interesting project. I’ll have a look at it. I think i
might be looking for something more script based though. Ive found a
couple of python alternatives out there but i’d much rather use ruby

Kevin J. wrote:

Hi,

Have you looked at CSSTidy?

I’m thinking of using it myself, but I don’t have any experience with it

Kev

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As it’s c++ (ie native), you can add it to your rake/rant build as a
callout with ` - then you can keep your build ruby based

Also as it’s open source, if you really wanted you could rewrite in ruby

Kev

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Chris G. wrote:

Does anyone know of any script that can be used to compress css for
deployment. Im looking for something that can be used during the build
process rather than something you click to acheive it. Were currently
using jsmin for javascript, something like that for css would be ideal.

gzip

Seriously, most browsers accept gzip compression so if you want to save
bandwidth, the best option is to have a .gz version of each css file and
send that if the browser supports gzip encoding. This is what I do for
my css and javascript files:
ReWriteCond %{HTTP:accept-encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}$1.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.gz [passthrough,last]

Daniel

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Came accross this plugin:

Looks pretty cool so think i’m going with that assuming it works :slight_smile:

Thanks for the advice.

Chris

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On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 20:40 +0900, Daniel DeLorme wrote:

send that if the browser supports gzip encoding. This is what I do for
my css and javascript files:
ReWriteCond %{HTTP:accept-encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}$1.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.gz [passthrough,last]

Or you can use mod_deflate; then you don’t need to provide a gzip’d
version. Of course, that will cost some server CPU time, so it’s a
tradeoff…

Yours,

Tom

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Does anyone know of any script that can be used to compress css for
deployment. Im looking for something that can be used during the build
process rather than something you click to acheive it. Were currently
using jsmin for javascript, something like that for css would be ideal.

cheers,

I’ve been working on a completely unrelated project but with code that
I could fairly quickly customise to meet this requirement. I’ll try to
knock it up over the weekend. Simply require whatever the plugin/gem
is and call stylesheet_include_tag as per normal and it would
automatically process at run-time. Need to consider how to do the
cleanup after a file changes though.

Glenn