Greg Gamel ggamel

Rainbow stripe mixin with SCSS + Compass

I'm trying to make a horizontal rainbow stripe background gradient mixin, but I feel like this is way too verbose. How can it be better?

Goals:

Use variables for colors so they can be swapped out for different colors.
The widths are hard coded for 8 colors. Can it be done smarter where it adjusts to the number of colors you add? Or is that asking too much?
The colors are defined twice for the color starts and stops. Can this be done better?
Right now I define the colors as variables at the top level, then pass them in the mixin. Should they instead be created inside the mixin and then colors are brought in as arguments? Or does that matter?

	/*
	We can even execute JavaScript.
	For example, here is a simple jQuery plugin that shuffles the "Demo" heading text above.

	http://tutorialzine.com/2011/09/shuffle-letters-effect-jquery/
	*/

	$("#demo-header").shuffleLetters();

	//
	// Sass rotation mixin for IE6+
	//

	@mixin ms-rotate($degrees) {
	@if (not unitless($degrees)) { $degrees: $degrees / 1deg }
	$deg2rad: pi() * 2 / 360;
	$radians: $degrees * $deg2rad;
	$costheta: cos($radians);
	$sintheta: sin($radians);


	~ ⚡ mkdir -p ~/.yeoman
	~ ⚡ sudo npm install -g yeoman
	Password:
	npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/yeoman
	npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/yeoman

	> [email protected] uninstall /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/yeoman
	> sudo rm -r ~/.yeoman

	# The most elegant solution for fizzbuzz as taken from http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz126.html
	# This solution is human-readable, easily explainable, and (excluding the ?: ternary operator taken from C) is a good example of Ruby code clarity.

	(1..100).each{\|i\|
	x = ''
	x += 'Fizz' if i%3==0
	x += 'Buzz' if i%5==0
	puts(x.empty? ? i : x);
	}

	.slider {
	/* set initial width */
	width: 520px;

	/* hide the content that overflows (to allow second box to show through) */
	overflow: hidden;
	display: inline-block;

	/* skew container so that it has angled edge, and set up transition */
	transform: skewX(-20deg);

	/* Chat */

	* {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	}

	html {
	background-image: url(data:image/jpeg;base64,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

	# ~/.osx — http://mths.be/osx

	###############################################################################
	# General UI/UX #
	###############################################################################

	# Menu bar: disable transparency
	defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleEnableMenuBarTransparency -bool false

	# Menu bar: show remaining battery time; hide percentage

	/**
	* Grayscaled kitteh
	*/
	body {
	background: #f06;
	background: linear-gradient(45deg, #f06, yellow);
	min-height: 100%;
	}

	img {