Alloy is a simple web tool that provides an API for the compilation of CSS using a variety of preprocessors. Built for developers who offer the use of custom CSS in their products, this allows for the use of the more advanced and useful CSS preprocessors as well.
We created this because we needed it for Divshot and decided to open source it so that everyone can benefit.
Note that you can always use Alloy from its home at divshot.com/alloy. Usage of this free hosted service is currently limited to 100 requests per hour.
Alloy depends on Ruby 1.9.3 and several RubyGems for the core web
functionality. It also needs Node.js and NPM installed in order
to compile LessCSS and Stylus code. Finally, you will need Java
1.4 or greater installed to be able to compress the CSS using
the yui-compressor gem.
To run Alloy locally, you will first need to clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/divshot/alloy.git
Next, you'll need to get everything up and running with Bundler:
bundle
That's it! You can now run this the way you would any other Rack
application, for example with rackup.
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