execcsslint

ExecCSSLint

ExecCSSLint is a thin Ruby wrapper that uses ExecJS to execute [csslint]. It is heavily inspired by Dean Strelau's https://github.com/mintdigital/execjslint.

Install

$ gem install execcsslint

Usage

require 'execcsslint'

css = File.open('path/to/my.css')
results = CSSLint.run(css)
if !result.valid?
  # There were errors
  puts "Check your CSS"
  puts result.error_messages
elsif !result.error_messages.empty?
  # There were warnings
  puts "You may want to take at look at your CSS"
  puts result.error_messages
else
  puts "Great job pal"
end

CSSLint.run accepts an IO object (that responds to read()) or a string.

If you're looking to use this in a Rails app, take a look at [examples/csslint.rake](the example rake task).

Requirements

You'll need one of the [execjs-runtimes](supported ExecJS runtimes). OS X comes with JavaScriptCore by default, so you likely don't need to install anything.

csslint Options

Right now, ExecCSSLint does not support setting global csslint options, so you'll have to include them in a /*csslint */ comment at the top of each file. csslint.js will automatically parse and apply options specified like this. A full list of options is available on [csslint.net].

Using an Alternate csslint.js

ExecCSSLint depends on the csslint-source gem, which is a ruby packaging of the official csslint.js. By default, ExecCSSLint depends on the latest version of the csslint-source gem. As there are no official releases of csslint, csslint-source is versioned according to [the date at the top of csslint.js][csslint-date] (eg, 2012.03.16). rubygems.org has a [full list of csslint-source gem versions][source-versions].

To override this, you can specify an explicit dependency on csslint-source, for example, using bundler:

gem 'execcsslint'
gem 'csslint-source', '2012.03.17'

You can also explicitly specify a local copy of csslint.js to use by setting the CSSLINT_PATH env variable.

$ CSSLINT_PATH=../lib/csslint.js rake csslint