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I want to enable right-to-left locales as well as left-to-right, but I only want to maintain a single set of stylesheets.
The idea is that calling application-rtl.css will serve a rtl-converted version of application.css (using r2).
This functionality has two use-cases:
So far, I've managed to implement a RTLConverter that enables me to serve all my stylesheets converted to RTL without having touched them at all:
config/initializers/rtl_converter.rb:
require "r2"
require "tilt"
class RTLConverter < Tilt::Template
def prepare; end
def evaluate(context, locals, &block)
R2.r2 @data
end
end
Rails.application.assets.register_preprocessor 'text/css', RTLConverter
You can also implement this as an engine for sprockets to only convert files having the .rtl extension:
Rails.application.assets.register_engine 'rtl', RTLConverter
How can I hook into the asset pipeline in order to:
Notes:
The converter does not work in conjunction with the sass engine, but seems to work fine with less. It's been applied to a twitter-bootstrap based site and works like a charm.
The converter has not been tested in production.
If I can find a decent solution to this problem, I intend to create and maintain a gem and give it back to the community.
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I would aim for just using CSS directly to handle the LTR-RTL differences. CSS can probably handle the job for you. In case you define your CSS as LTR, then, based on a CSS class you can override the stuff you want.
<body class="RTL">
RTL"A short example. Original "default" styles:
body { direction: ltr; }
.sidebar { width: 200px; float: right; margin-left: 30px }
Then, overwrite relevant styles later in your css:
body.rtl { direction: rtl; }
.rtl .sidebar { float: right; margin-right: 30px; }
/*remember to 'reset' all defaults for example: */
.rtl .sidebar { margin-left: 0; }
With sass, you have a common place to define standard variables, for instance margin in the example above. Your mileage may vary. But to me, that sounds more simple than messing with asset pipeline.
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