Improve the look of the webpage. Add some CSS!

ON ICE!

html/index.erb

@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 
 > a repository for development versions of Emacs packages (hot from the repo).
 
-**Last Updated:** <%= Time.now.strftime("%Y.%m.%d %H:%M") %>
+**Last Update:** *<%= Time.now.strftime("%Y.%m.%d %H:%M") %>*
 
 ## Current List of Packages being Generated Nightly
 
-<%=
+<%
   def parse str
     # credit to: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3128406/154508
     tokens = str.scan(/#{Regexp.escape("(")}|#{Regexp.escape(")")}|[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+/)
@@ -28,11 +28,39 @@ def parse str
 
     return stack[-1][-1]
   end
-parse(File.open("../packages/archive-contents").read)[1..-1].map{ |x|
+
-  "* #{x[0]}-#{x[1]} :: #{x[3..-2].join(" ")}"
+
+  headers = ["Package", "Version", "Description"]
+
+  data = parse(File.open("../packages/archive-contents").read)[1..-1]
+
+
+  data.map! do |row|
+    [row[0], row[1][0], row[3..-2].join(" ")]
+   end
+
+  colwidth = [0,0,0]
+
+  data.map do |row|
+    row.to_enum(:each_with_index).map do |e,i|
+      colwidth[i] = [colwidth[i], e.length].max
+    end
+  end
+%>
+<%=
+    headers.to_enum(:each_with_index).map{
+      |h,i| h + " "*(colwidth[i]-h.length) }.join(" ")
+%>
+<%= colwidth.map{ |w| "-"*w }.join(" ") %>
+<%=
+    data.map{ |row|
+    row.to_enum(:each_with_index).map{ |c,i|
+       c + " "*(colwidth[i]-c.length)
+       }.join(" ")
     }.join("\n")
 %>
 
+
 ## Installing
 
 To add the repository put this before the call to `package-initialize`

html/style.css

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+
+table {
+    border-spacing: 0px;
+}
+
+/* td:first-child, th:first-child { */
+/*     padding-left: 5px; */
+/*     padding-right: 5px; */
+/* } */
+
+td, th {
+    padding: 3px 7px 3px 7px;
+}
+
+tr.header {
+    background-color: #fad;
+}
+
+tr.odd {
+    background-color: #ccc;
+}
+

melpa

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ BASEDIR=`dirname $0`
 
 cd ${BASEDIR} || exit 1
 
+
 function melpa_clear_packages {
     echo "*** Clearing the packages folder..."
     rm -r packages/*
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ function melpa_generate_html {
     echo "*** Building html"
     cd html || return 1
     erb index.erb > index.md
-    pandoc -s --mathml -t html --smart index.md > index.html
+    pandoc --css=style.css -s --mathml -t html --smart index.md > index.html
     cd ..
     echo
 }