Support Less version 1.4.x

[vjpr]

Could not find any mention on the website as to what less version less-rails uses.

From commit messages it appears its 1.3.3.

1.4.0 comes with the extends keyword which I need for my styles.

Is there a workaround to get 1.4.1 working with less-rails?

[metaskills]

Let's follow the dep chain. From our gemspec, you can see we rely on 'less', '~> 2.3.1'

https://github.com/metaskills/less-rails/blob/master/less-rails.gemspec#L17

The less.rb project is currently using 1.3.3.

https://github.com/cowboyd/less.rb/issues?page=1&state=open

So we have to start there and go upward. If you want to help and test, that project should allow you to update the git submodule for less and run the tests. Then you can open an issue/pr based on that.

[vjpr]

Thanks. Managed to get it working for my immediate purposes. I'll run tests and submit a pull soon.

Here is an interim solution for anyone interested:

gem 'commonjs', :git => 'git://github.com/vjpr/commonjs.rb', :branch => 'fix-require'
gem 'less', :git => 'git://github.com/vjpr/less.rb', :branch => '1.4.1', :submodules => true
gem 'less-rails' 

If you are using https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails you will need the following which includes Less 1.4.x compatible Bootstrap files:

gem 'twitter-bootstrap-rails', git: 'https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails.git', branch: 'master'

[metaskills]

This is done now in our 2.4.x versions.