diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6dbe85c3..9d96a9f7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ test/fixtures/stylesheets/*/sass/.sass-cache
 pkg/*
 coverage*
 docs
+doc-src/tmp
diff --git a/doc-src/.compass/config.rb b/doc-src/.compass/config.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4082d0ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/.compass/config.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Require any additional compass plugins here.
+require 'susy'
+
+# Set this to the root of your project when deployed:
+http_path = "/"
+css_dir = "../docs/stylesheets"
+sass_dir = "content/stylesheets"
+images_dir = "content/images"
+javascripts_dir = "content/javascripts"
+# To enable relative paths to assets via compass helper functions. Uncomment:
+# relative_assets = true
diff --git a/doc-src/Rakefile b/doc-src/Rakefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f484d249
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/Rakefile
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+require 'nanoc3/tasks'
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diff --git a/doc-src/Rules b/doc-src/Rules
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2ebbf18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/Rules
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+require 'compass'
+ 
+Compass.configuration.parse "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/.compass/config.rb"
+
+compile '/stylesheets/*/' do
+  filter :sass, Compass.sass_engine_options
+end
+
+compile '*' do
+  filter :haml
+  layout 'default'
+end
+
+route '/stylesheets/_*/' do
+  # don't output partials, so return nil
+  nil
+end
+ 
+route '/stylesheets/*/' do
+  # don't generate a directory like we do for HTML files
+  item.identifier.chop + '.css'
+end
+
+route '*' do
+  item.identifier + 'index.html'
+end
+
+layout '*', :haml
diff --git a/doc-src/config.yaml b/doc-src/config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4bc6e049
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+--- 
+data_sources: 
+- items_root: /
+  layouts_root: /
+  type: filesystem_compact
+output_dir: ../docs
diff --git a/doc-src/content/index.haml b/doc-src/content/index.haml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a612a07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/content/index.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+%h1 Compass Documentation
+
+%p
+  Welcome to the compass docs.
+
diff --git a/doc-src/content/index.yaml b/doc-src/content/index.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cb60025b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/content/index.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+--- 
+title: Home
diff --git a/doc-src/content/stylesheets/main.sass b/doc-src/content/stylesheets/main.sass
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2622404f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/content/stylesheets/main.sass
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+@import blueprint
+
+body
+  font-family: "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Grande", Lucida, sans-serif
+
+#container
+  +container
+
+#main
+  +column(24 - 6, true)
+  +prepend(6)
+
+#sidebar
+  +column(6)
+  +pull(24, true)
+  
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diff --git a/doc-src/content/stylesheets/main.yaml b/doc-src/content/stylesheets/main.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2fbf0ffd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/content/stylesheets/main.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+--- {}
diff --git a/doc-src/content/test.haml b/doc-src/content/test.haml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9f760e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/content/test.haml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+%p Hi, I'm a new item!
diff --git a/doc-src/content/test.yaml b/doc-src/content/test.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e5219766
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/content/test.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+--- 
+title: A New Item
diff --git a/doc-src/layouts/default.haml b/doc-src/layouts/default.haml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ac2c3357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/layouts/default.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+!!! Strict
+%html
+  %head
+    %title
+      #{@item[:title]} - Compass
+    %meta{ :content => "text/html; charset=utf-8", "http-equiv" => "Content-Type" }
+    %link{ :href => "/stylesheets/main.css", :rel => "stylesheet", :type => "text/css", :media => "screen" }
+  %body
+    #container
+      #main
+        = yield
+      #sidebar
+        %h2
+          Compass Documentation
+        %ul
+          %li
+            %a{ :href => "http://nanoc.stoneship.org/tutorial/" }
+              Reference
+          %li
+            %a{ :href => "http://nanoc.stoneship.org/manual/" }
+              Tutorial
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diff --git a/doc-src/layouts/default.yaml b/doc-src/layouts/default.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..20670d5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/layouts/default.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+--- {}
+
diff --git a/doc-src/lib/default.rb b/doc-src/lib/default.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..77f02e4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc-src/lib/default.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# All files in the 'lib' directory will be loaded
+# before nanoc starts compiling.
+
+include Nanoc3::Helpers::LinkTo
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