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Bixbite Project Initializer

Bixbite creates a project structure optimal for client-side development.

• Downloads the latest versions of Google Ajax API Libraries
• Uses LABjs for parallelized script management
• Allows full use of PHP includes for shared module management
• Bundles a customized PHP Minify package for on-the-fly compression tests
• Dynamic to static publishing eliminates server-side dependencies on delivery

Additionally, Bixbite includes rake tasks to automatically:

• Create new page templates & associated JS/CSS files
• Prepare files for deployment
• Generate NaturalDocs-compliant documentation
• Compress PNG files using PNGout
• Gracefully degrade 24-bit PNG files for Internet Explorer 6
• Deliver compressed versions of CSS & JavaScript files
• Add new files, remove outdated files from Subversion
• Generate diff reports for each delivery

Install

Install the gem:

gem install bixbite

Usage

Generating a Bixbite template

Run the Bixbite gem to generate a new template:

bixbite "The Foo Project" FOO

This command will generate a template with a project name of “The Foo Project” and support files (JS/PHP) using the FOO namespace.

You may also specify arguments when invoked. Via bixbite --help:

• —js-lib [ARG]: use specified JavaScript library (options: jQuery, YUI, MooTools)
• —source-directory [ARG]: override bundled template with user-defined template