Find a way if there's a web-hook to auto update /r/web_design's css with an update from this repo.

[JulianNorton]

[jrhodkinson]

This is definitely possible with some sort of continuous integration program. All we'd need is a server (Heroku would work) and another Reddit account with mod privileges on /r/web_design

You'd also have to go through what you do to manually update it: I notice things like %%spritesheet%% in the CSS - do you manually replace these or does Reddit?

[purduekenny]

That's reddit's placeholders for images you upload to their CDN (amazon).

[jrhodkinson]

So does anything need to be done to that between GitHub and Reddit? Or is it as simple as clicking upload on Reddit with the exact same file as is here?

[purduekenny]

That's what I've been doing. I'm not sure what Julian has going on. I just copy the raw and then comment the commit ID to the comment section for revision purposes. I think Julian was wanting something to auto-update the stylesheet if we made a commit here. I'm not sure. We'll have to wait until Julian comments.

[jrhodkinson]

Alright, that sounds simple enough - it'd be easy to automate that if we had a server

[purduekenny]

I do reseller hosting and obviously have my own website. So, as long as shared hosting is a viable server then we have one. I have no experience with Heroku though.

[purduekenny]

@swadq gave you some flair on /r/web_design for your work. :) Nice to have a non-mod contributing.

[jrhodkinson]

As long as there's the facility to run a cron job, it'd be fine. All the functionality could be written in PHP.

Ideally the CSS should be run through a validator being put on Reddit, but that can be worked in too. Sadly there's nothing we can really do besides that as far as "unit testing" goes.

The way I see it is there'd be a cron job running every 15 minutes that does the following

• Check the current hash on /master, if it's different from the last one, continue
• Copy the CSS and run it through W3C's validator. If it passes, continue
• Login to /r/web_design's mod interface (cURL or a headless browser?) and update the CSS, including the hash as a comment
• Save the hash to some file so we can read it later for the first step

Also, thanks!

[purduekenny]

Just set up a cron job successfully last week, so it's possible.
Who's going to code that? :P
No problem. :D

[jrhodkinson]

I'm happy to code it, I'll get it set up on a subreddit of my own and commit it here when it works

[JulianNorton]

Let me see if I can loop in automod's devs…

[jrhodkinson]

Good idea

[BenePronomen]

/r/AutoModerator mod here. I don't develop AutoModerator (that's entirely /u/Deimorz) but I can tell you that updating from a 3rd-party-anything is outside the scope of AutoModerator's capabilities.

[JulianNorton]

@swadq are you still interested in doing this?