Dependencies:

Less (> 1.3.1)

I use ‘less’, a superset of css that compiles to straight css in order to make my css a lot simpler. In order to make the css for the site, run

make css

This requires the less compiler, ‘lessc’, which in turns requires node.js. Once ‘node.js’ is installed, less can be installed globally by running ‘npm install -g less’. This will install lessc into your default global node_modules folder, which should be in your $PATH. If it is, ‘make css’ should then work.

How to get started:

Ray

Ray is the top-level namespace for everything I’ve written. I chose the name because it was short, matched the Marine Wildlife theme established by Whalesong, and also was close to Racket.

Application

You have to start up a server to run the application. I’m just using python’s builtin HTTP server, so as long as you have some python installation in your PATH, this should work.

You can do so with the following command:

./start-server

Run that from the root directory of the repository, and then navigate to

http://localhost:8000/demo.html

to run the application.

Tests

The test suite for Ray can be run and viewed by opening up ‘ray/tests.html’ in a web browser. No server is required.

If not using a server, you do need to provide the full path to the file in order to view it in the browser.

If you’d like, you can run a server, with ‘./start-server’, and then view the page at

http://localhost:8000/ray/tests.html