Ribs v1.0.7

Ribs is the evolution of Skeleton, the original author seems to have disappeared and/or lost interest in the project, and my colleagues and I use this an awful lot.

What's different here?

My fork has one significant difference over the original project, that is a full SCSS conversion to make use of more modern technologies and to expose a lot more customisation options quickly and easily.

As time goes by, and with enough interest I will gradually extend the available options and build a packaging tool that allows you to select all of your customisations in a graphical way - thinking something along the lines of jQuery themeroller, just a bit more lightweight.

Some Key Differences

• Maintained!
• Configurable grid
• Default colours, borders, fonts, margins, padding etc are all configurable variables
• Normalized elements, rather than the old school CSS resets
• Sensible Table styles
• Taking advantage of sass, the majority of selector repetition is removed in favour of mixins that generate the selectors
• Many issues flagged by CSSLint refactored to resolve them
• The original CSS has been split out into individual files and heavily refactored to tidy it up
• Golden ratio default line heights
• A selection of useful mixins
• Push and pull column classes
• Bower installable

Installing

Either clone this repository and drop in manually, or install from bower:

bower install --save ribs

Build status

The project is set up to build and run csslint on Travis:

• Master:
• Development:

Building

I've added grunt configuration to the repository for those of you that use it.

There are 4 main tasks added:

• default - Runs Sass to create the stylesheet from the source files, places the output in ./css then creates a minified version of the file and places it into the same directory
• test - This runs CSSLint over the output CSS file (Note that there are a few bits in the original skeleton css that I still need to fix!)
• minify - This literally just runs cssmin, useful if you've edited Ribs.css directly
• watch - This will monitor the scss directory for changes and automatically rebuild the css and minified css (Effectively the same as sass --watch but with added minification)

To get started with the grunt tools

You need to install grunt-cli globally (npm install -g grunt-cli) to start with, otherwise you wont have a runner! Then following that, from the root dir of this project, run npm install which will set up all of the required dependencies.

You should be good to go.

Changelog

• Oct 10, 2013 - (v1.0.7) Documented the differences between the original skeleton project and Ribs, Updated normalize to 2.1.3
• Aug 7, 2013 - (v1.0.6) Some additional variables, grid push and pull
• Jul 17, 2013 - (v1.0.5) Some additional variables, some base table styling
• Jul 14, 2013 - (v1.0.4) Removed reset and replaced it with normalize
• May 30, 2013 - (v1.0.3) Added 1.5 * font size line heights to headings and paragraphs
• May 28, 2013 - Rename project to Ribs
• May 17, 2013 - (v1.0.2) Travis CI build configuration, and minor refactor to remove as many of the warnings from CSSLint as was feasible to do - MAY CAUSE REGRESSIONS.
• May 17, 2013 - (v1.0.1) Added grunt build tools
• Apr 23, 2013 - (v1.0.0) Skeleton SCSS v1.0 - Additional variable conversions, changes based on feedback to the original project and bower submission.
• Jan 31, 2013 - Completed SCSS conversion of Skeleton 1.2.

Contributers

• Nick Pack
• Matthew Copeland
• Miles Z. Sterrett
• AtomicPages LLC
• Toby Vervaart
• Dave Gamache

Licence

Copyright (c) 2013 Nick Pack Based on the original skeleton project which is Copyright 2011 Dave Gamache Licensed under the MIT license.