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Compass Command Line Documentation

This page lists the compass commands you can use to set up and manage your project.

You may also find one of these walk throughs useful:

• HOWTO: Compile your stylesheets for production

Project Commands

### Create a new compass project

compass create path/to/project [--using blueprint] [--sass-dir=sass ...] [--project-type=rails]

### Initialize an existing project to work with compass

compass init rails path/to/project [--using blueprint]

### Install a pattern from an extension into a project

compass install blueprint/buttons [path/to/project]

### Compile the project's sass files into css

compass compile [path/to/project]

### Watch the project for changes and compile whenever it does

compass watch [path/to/project]

### Emit a configuration file at the location specified.

compass config [path/to/config] [--sass-dir=sass --css-dir=css ...]

### Validate the generated CSS.

compass validate [path/to/project]

Misc commands

### Generate a background image that can be used to verify grid alignment

compass grid-img W+GxH [path/to/grid.png]

Where:

W =

Width of 1 column in pixels.

G =

Width of 1 gutter in pixels.

H =

Height of the typographic baseline in pixels.

Examples:

# 40px column, 10px gutter, 20px height at <images_dir>/grid.png
compass grid-img 40+10
# 40px column, 20px gutter, 28px height at <images_dir>/grid.png
compass grid-img 40+20x28
# 60px column, 20px gutter, 28px height at images/wide_grid.png
compass grid-img 60+20x28 images/wide_grid.png

### Enter into a console for testing SassScript in a compass environment.

compass interactive

### Print out statistics about your stylesheets

compass stats

### Emit the version of compass

compass version

### Unpack a framework or extension into your project

compass unpack <extension>

Get Help on the Command Line

### Get help on compass

compass help

### Get help on an extension

compass help extension_name

### Get help about an extension pattern

compass help extension_name/pattern_name

### Get help about a particular sub command

compass help command_name