Moar silliness. Generate a set of CSS styles for grid columns. Fixed-width for the moment. ruby col-widther-css.rb, copy and paste.

col-widther-css.rb

@colwidth = 100

@margin = 10

@total = 0

@numbers = ["none", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten", "eleven", "twelve", "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen", "sixteen", "seventeen", "eighteen", "nineteen", "twenty", "twenty_one", "twenty_two", "twenty_three", "twenty_four", "twenty_five", "twenty_six", "twenty_seven", "twenty_eight", "twenty_nine", "thirty", "thirty_one", "thirty_two"]

def spanwidth(cols)
  [(cols * @colwidth.to_i), (@margin.to_i * (cols-1))]
end

def calculate

  puts ".grid {"
  puts "  margin-left: #{@margin.to_i}px;"
  puts "  margin-right: 0px;"
  puts "  width: #{@colwidth.to_i}px;"
  puts "}"
  puts ""
  puts ".grid:last-child {"
  puts "  margin-right: 0;"
  puts "}"
  puts ""

  (1..@cols.to_i).each do | multiple |
    width =  [(multiple * @colwidth.to_i), (@margin.to_i * (multiple-1))]
    puts ".grid.#{@numbers[multiple]}_units {"
    puts "  width: #{width[0] + width[1]}px;"
    puts "}"
    puts ""
    @total += (@colwidth.to_i + @margin.to_i)
  end

end

puts "Column width: "
@colwidth = gets

puts "Margin width: "
@margin = gets

puts "Total columns: "
@cols = gets

puts "8<------"

if @cols.to_i > (@numbers.size() - 1)
  puts "Dunno how to generate the names of one or more columns"
  exit
end

if @colwidth.to_i > 1 && @margin.to_i > 1 && @cols.to_i > 1
  calculate
  puts "------8<"
  
  puts "Total: #{@total}"
else
  puts "Oops."
end