Potatochop

A simple server for HAML & SASS mock ups

VersaHQ blog post on Potatochop

Installation

Install Potatochop as a gem in the usual way:

$ gem install potatochop

Usage

To use Potatochop, you also need a folder where you keep your mock ups. Ideally this folder would be under version control, but it is not required.

Once the Potatochop gem is installed, cd into your comps directory and run potatochop.

$ cd ~/mock_ups # or wherever you keep your mock_ups
$ potatochop

or pass in the path to your mock ups folder with the --mockups flag

$ potatochop --mockups ~/mock_ups

This will start up the Potatochop server on port 4567. By default, Potatochop will serve files in the same hierarchy as the mock ups folder.

For example, if you start Potatochop in a folder with a file called new_homepage.html.haml you can see it in your browser at http://localhost:4567/new_homepage.html

The Mock Ups folder

For lack of a better name, the folder where you store your haml, sass, js, etc. files is called the mock ups folder.

Out of the box, Potatochop processes and serves any haml or sass file in this folder. Vanilla HTML & JavaScript files are served directly. For example, your mock ups folder could be organized like this:

~/mock_ups
	about.html
	faq.html.haml
	index.html.haml
	css/
		about.css
		faq.css.scss
		index.css.scss
	js/
		interactions.js

ProTip: There is an example mock ups folder in the spec/fake_mockups folder (it's used by our automated tests).

When you want to include stylesheets in your haml/html pages, refer to them only by their .css extension. Using the above folder layout:

 # index.html.haml
 %link{ rel: 'stylesheet', href: 'css/index.css' }

Serving files from a GitHub repo

Let's say you have a repository on GitHub where you keep your mockups (i.e https://github.com/mertonium/potatochop_comps).

You can serve this repo by passing potatochop the --interface flag along with the repo path:

# Serve files from a public repository on GitHub
$ potatochop --interface github --repo mertonium/potatochop_comps

If your mock ups folder is in a private repo, you must also pass potatochop the --token flag, along with a personal access token:

# Serve files from a private repository on GitHub
$ potatochop --interface github --repo mertonium/potatochop_comps_private --token=GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request