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diff --git a/doc/ADMIN.md b/doc/ADMIN.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..059010e68 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/ADMIN.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Doing development work on the administration interface +====================================================== + +The Alaveteli admin interface uses Twitter's Bootstrap project to prettify it. + +If you want to work on the CSS, you'll want to use +[bootstrap-sass](https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass). Do something like: + + + $ gem install bootstrap-sass + $ gem install compass + $ compass compile --config .compass/config.rb + +The javascript is included in a funky way +[for reasons explained in this commit](https://github.com/sebbacon/adminbootstraptheme/commit/45a73d53fc9e8f0b728933ff58764bd8d0612dab). +To change it, edit the coffeescript at +`lib/view/general/admin.coffee`, and then do something like: + + $ coffee -o /tmp/ -c lib/views/general/admin.coffee + $ mv /tmp/admin.js lib/views/general/admin_js.erb + |