georgkreimer / sass-java

A Sass compiling filter for Java web apps

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NOTE: As of version 3.2.7 we are using compass to compile your sass!

sass-java

Compiles sass to css on-the-fly with compass via a j2ee servlet filter

Usage

Add this to your web.xml

<filter>
    <filter-name>SassCompiler</filter-name>
    <filter-class>com.sass_lang.SassCompilingFilter</filter-class>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>SassCompiler</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

Create a WEB-INF/sass/config.rb file that looks something like

css_dir = "../../stylesheets"
sass_dir = "."

Put your sass templates in WEB-INF/sass and each request for a css file will regenerate as needed.

Maven

Since getting stuff in central is a PITA, add the following to your pom.xml

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>sass-java</id>
        <url>http://sass-java.googlecode.com/svn/repo/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sass-lang</groupId>
        <artifactId>sass-java</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.7</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Ant

Download the jar with depenencies

##Config Configuration is done through a combination of filter init parameters and the config.rb file. The following filter init parameters are available to control the execution of the filter:

  • configLocation - the location of the config.rb (default WEB-INF/sass/config.rb)
  • onlyRunWhenKey - the system property or environment variable to check to see if sass compilation should run, use this to turn sass generation off in production
  • onlyRunWhenValue - the corresponding value to check to see if sass compilation should run

You probably only want the css generation to run in development mode and then commit the generated css to source control. This is achieved by the onlyRunWhenKey and onlyRunWhenValue filter init parameters.

<filter>
    <filter-name>SassCompiler</filter-name>
    <filter-class>com.sass_lang.SassCompilingFilter</filter-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>onlyRunWhenKey</param-name>
        <param-value>RUNTIME_ENVIRONMENT</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>onlyRunWhenValue</param-name>
        <param-value>local</param-value>
    </init-param>
</filter>

With this configuration the filter will check a system property or environment variable called RUNTIME_ENVIRONMENT and only run the sass compilation if that value is equal to local

See the compass config documentation to find out about all the wonderful things you can put in config.rb. For those config options that reference a file or directory, the working directory that compass will be executed in is the directory that contains config.rb.

##Try it out

  1. git clone https://github.com/darrinholst/sass-java.git
  2. cd sass-java
  3. mvn jetty:run
  4. wait for maven to download the internet
  5. open http://localhost:8080/sass-java
  6. change src/test/sample-webapp/WEB-INF/sass/application.scss
  7. repeat step 5
  8. be amazed

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A Sass compiling filter for Java web apps

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