unable to serve CSS - same as #51, path confusion

[mooseyboots]

hi,

i'm trying out radiance, as per the readme getting started instructions, and it's unclear how the local /static/ CSS should work.

if i spin up a new module from scratch, it only renders CSS if the path for the uri-to-url function is given as /static/example/example.css, but the relative file path actually on disk is just /static/example.css.

it doesn't work if both paths are the same, i.e both /static/example.css or both /static/example/example.css, it only works if they don't match.

which is very confusing, to this total noob at least. is this deliberate somehow? shouldn't all css files under /static/ just be read so the subdir doesn't matter in this way, and its left up to the user? and if we are already in our module directory, do we need a subdir below static to specify that we are also in our module directory? (maybe later on, but then it'd be helpful to explain the necessity in the getting started guide! :) )

while i'm here, is this always a strictly relative path? asking as i want to change *modules-directory*.

thanks.

[Shinmera]

It is deliberate, because you share the /static path as it's served with all other modules, not just your own.

[Shinmera]

*modules-directory* does not influence anything at all except where the scaffold generator stores stuff by default.

[mooseyboots]

now i'm trying under a different modules dir, path /static/rad-test/rad-test.css, file location /static/rad-test.css and it also doesn't render...

[Shinmera]

is your module actually called rad-test?

[mooseyboots]

the one under a different path is yes

[Shinmera]

And is it known to radiance? Is it actually loaded?

[mooseyboots]

yes, i would figure so, because the page text loads, & updates if i change it.

[Shinmera]

That's not a given. Did you quickload or load-system your module?

[mooseyboots]

(ql:quickload "rad-test") in the repl

anyway if the path oddity is correct then i have an issue somewhere else.

as i mentioned, i did manage to get it to render CSS when using the default modules directory.

[Shinmera]

You can check what path it actually looks under with (radiance:static-file "rad-test.css" :rad-test)

Anyway, the quick tutorial in the readme is extremely terse on purpose and does not serve as a proper introduction to everything. I'm not interested in making it into one, that's what the lengthy tutorial linked from the documentation is for.