Non-rails specific repository?

[AlJohri]

Do you have any plans for making this repository slightly less rails specific?

You have one of the most active repositories with a jquery-ui css -> scss conversion and your single file of scss variables is extremely useful.

I'm currently attempting to use your repository with with bower as thus:

"jquery": "~1.10.2",
"jquery-ui": "~1.10.3",
"jquery-ui-sass": "git://github.com/jhilden/jquery-ui-sass-rails#master",

and adding these import statements

@import "variables" // custom override for jquery ui theme variables
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.core.css.scss";

@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.accordion.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.autocomplete.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.button.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.datepicker.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.dialog.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.menu.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.progressbar.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.resizable.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.selectable.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.slider.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.spinner.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.tabs.css.scss";
@import "jquery-ui-sass/app/assets/stylesheets/jquery.ui.tooltip.css.scss";

However:

I can't import any files with relative imports such as jquery.ui.all because the relative imports within the directory don't work without the ".css.scss" extension.

I also can't use the "image-path" rails specific function.

It might be a good idea to have a central jquery-ui-sass repository which is git submoduled and your rake tasks to convert the image-path etc. can be run there?

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One tangentially similar project is https://github.com/jquery-ui-bootstrap/jquery-ui-bootstrap which converted the base theme to LESS and modified variables and themes etc. to provide a bootstrap compatible theme.

If you're familiar with bootstrap, you might be aware that they now support both SCSS and LESS using a completely automated conversion rake task.

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/blob/master/tasks/converter.rb

It might be easy to build a jquery-ui sass bootstrap theme built off of this repository.

jquery, from what I've read, wants to stick to only web standards so this repository can easily become the defacto jquery-ui-sass repository for all web frameworks instead of just rails.

Just some food for thought and I'd love to help!

[jhilden]

Thanks for your input. I would certainly be open to pulling out the core sass files to a bower-friendly repository. However, I have no bower experience, so I wouldn't really know how to go about it.