BlankStatic updated for latest Compass, Haml, Sass; HTML5 Branch

BlankStatic got an update yesterday for the latest Compass, Haml and Sass versions. This means an update to the Gemfile and some changes to the syntax to the Sass files.

An HTML5 branch was added which will work with older version of IE as well with some JavaScript magic.

BlankStatic Version 1 released with "Bundled" Gems, Onward to Version 2

My template for creating static sites and prototyping templates for web applications and Radiant CMS templates, BlankStatic, has reached a version 1 release. Admittedly BlankStatic hasn't seen much love lately, and I wanted to upgrade the versions of Haml, Sass and Compass it's using. However, this posed a problem for working with older sites using the current version. Enter Bundler.

Bundler allowed me to specify what Ruby Gems my tagged version of the template required in the Gemfile.

# Gemfile
source "http://rubygems.org"

gem "haml", "2.2.0"
gem "compass", "0.8.16"
gem "staticmatic", "0.10.1"

Perfect. A bundle install installed the gems I needed and create the Gemfile.lock that includes specific dependencies and I checked those both into git.

# Gemfile.lock
GEM
  specs:
    cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
    compass (0.8.16)
      haml (>= 2.2.0)
    daemons (1.1.0)
    fastthread (1.0.7)
    gem_plugin (0.2.3)
    haml (2.2.0)
    mongrel (1.1.5)
      cgi_multipart_eof_fix (>= 2.4)
      daemons (>= 1.0.3)
      fastthread (>= 1.0.1)
      gem_plugin (>= 0.2.3)
    staticmatic (0.10.1)
      haml (>= 2.0)
      mongrel (>= 1.0)

PLATFORMS
  ruby

DEPENDENCIES
  compass (= 0.8.16)
  haml (= 2.2.0)
  staticmatic (= 0.10.1)

However, I still had issues with the bin executables when running the server. For example, /usr/loca/bin/staticmatic points to the newer version of the StaticMatic gem, while I need to use an older version. No problem, bundle those executables using bundle exec. Now I can execute the bin/staticmatic preview . in the root of my static site. Super cool.

Now that I have a "freezed" version, I will start working on version 2. This will include an upgrade to the latest dependent gems and changes to the Sass templates to make them compatible with the new syntax.