Rails - Apr 2006 - [OT] Serving Multiple Stylesheets

I was wondering whether there is unbearable overhead involved in breaking css
into multiple stylesheets? I''m running lighttpd, and the following
article
discusses why one might want to do that:

http://justinfrench.com/?id=141

My CSS is beginning to get a bit lumpy to digest in one glance and the
article(s) seem to make a cogent argument for separating functional elements
out. I just wanted to make sure there weren''t any Rails or server
issues
that would be problematic.

TIA
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> I was wondering whether there is unbearable overhead involved in breaking
css
> into multiple stylesheets? I''m running lighttpd, and the following
article
> discusses why one might want to do that:
>
> http://justinfrench.com/?id=141
>
> My CSS is beginning to get a bit lumpy to digest in one glance and the
> article(s) seem to make a cogent argument for separating functional
elements
> out. I just wanted to make sure there weren''t any Rails or server
issues
> that would be problematic.
We''re not in production yet, but I don''t see why splitting it
up in
rails/lighty would be any different than splitting it up for any other 
environment.

In our case, we put this at the top of our default layout:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag controller.controller_name %>

Then for each controller we create public/stylesheets/controller_name.css 
file.  For those few sections that don''t have specific styles we have 
an empty style sheet.

Yeah, it''s one more file to download, but it will only happen once per 
browser (for the most part).

Well worth the sanity I''d say...

-philip