Rainpress

Rainpress is a free (MIT-style license) CSS compressor written in Ruby. It could be used either as a library or as a standalone executable. Rainpress doesn't apply common compression algorithms like gzip, it remove unecessary characters and replaces long attributes with an shorter equivalent.

History

For the Schoorbs we wanted to build releases packages and optimize all files, where a optimization made a significant increase. Already available CSS compressor were either only available via HTTP or not were less efficent.

Releases

Version 1.0 was lately released

Links

• Rainpress @ Google Code
• API Documentation
• Code covered by Unit-Tests
• Buildstatus of HEAD development branch