Compass-yaml

Intregrate a Yaml file in your Sass

Benefits

Yaml is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages. It's a common markup in a lot of languages and frameworks.

Now imagine you can share configuration through your application (configuration, views and all the other stuff) and your sass.

This allows you to reduce the effort for maintain your codebase.

Code

Add this few lines to your config.rb.

require 'yaml'
module Sass::Script::Functions
  def yaml(option)
    obj = YAML.load_file('config/config.yml')
    Sass::Script::Value::String.new(obj['options'][option.to_s])
  end
end

Now from your sass files you can use the yaml function

body{
	background-color: yaml(background); 
}

where background is a variable in your config.yml

options:
  background: red
  color: blue
  columns: 12

Easy, and now?

I'm thinking about creating a gem in order to use this even with plain sass. Let me know if you are interested in.

Feel free to fork and adapt it.

Thank you, Fabio