Getting Started

Installing Ruby

Windows Mac, Linx, *inx

Installing Compass

Once Ruby is installed open your terminal and run the following:

gem update --system
gem install compass

Creating your first Compass project

Stand Alone

See the install page for more details

To create a new Compass stand alone project run compass create <project_name> You should see the following output:

directory my_project/
directory my_project/sass/
directory my_project/stylesheets/
   create my_project/config.rb 
   create my_project/sass/screen.scss 
   create my_project/sass/print.scss 
   create my_project/sass/ie.scss 
   create my_project/stylesheets/ie.css 
   create my_project/stylesheets/print.css 
   create my_project/stylesheets/screen.css

Rails

Goto your rails root directory cd <rails_dorectory>
Run the compass initalizer command compass init rails .

Starting the Compass watcher

To start the compass watcher run compass watch from your projects root directory

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