deployment on a box w/o ruby

[mikermcneil]

just making a reminder note here for myself relevant to the discussion between @lukeheath and I-- I'll come back to this when I have time

[loicsaintroch]

@mikermcneil @lukeheath What about https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-sass ?

[mikermcneil]

The issue is that sass requires ruby, and many PaaS hosting services provide Node or Ruby, but not both

[mikermcneil]

@loicsaintroch ah nvm! Just saw what you mean. So that one uses c++

[hugoclrd]

@mikermcneil It basically uses https://github.com/sass/node-sass.

[lukeheath]

Gave grunt-sass a try a few weeks ago, but ran into issues with Compass transforms & transitions: gruntjs/grunt-contrib-compass#170. Issue was closed but never updated, so I'm not sure if this was resolved or not, or if the issues were isolated to specific configurations.

[mikermcneil]

@lukeheath was this just w/ the compass bit, or was it a specific thing with node-sass? If it's the latter, I think we could just go w/ that and make an official recommendation to use node-sass. Then eventually, set it up as a flag in the frontend generator (defaults to LESS, but you can pass in --sass to generate SASS tasks instead)

Post v0.10, I'd like to take a pass at getting an officially recommended gulp generator together as well-- the frontend generator would need to call out to a gulp-task or grunt-task generator instead of bundling the grunt tasks itself

[lukeheath]

@mikermcneil Yeah was just some compass funkiness, node-sass looks dope. ⛵

[coagmano]

Less cross-language dependencies would be ace!

[niallobrien]

Can we use libsass yet?

[coagmano]

@niallobrien You sure can,
just replace grunt-contrib-sass with grunt-sass and everything works just fine.
so in package.json and tasks/config/sass.js

[coagmano]

I made a fork of this repo with instructions for grunt-sass / libsass
https://github.com/coagmano/using-sass

[niallobrien]

Thanks @coagmano - that worked perfectly. :)
Future Googlers, just remember to include the stylesheet.
Jade: link(type='text/css', href='/styles/importer.css', rel='stylesheet')