Installing Compass on Drupal server

Installing the theme is the easy bit. What is much harder is setting up automatic SCSS recompilation.

• The README.txt file suggests using a full-blown installation of node.js just to manage this.
• A much more lightweight solution is to use compass

1. Install ruby
   • On CentOS 5.x you can use these instructions: www.deep-silver.com/…epository
   • Might need a newer version for bourbon but seems to work ok
   • gem install sass
   • gem install compass
2. Make sure the root directory of the theme includes config.rb
   • If you are using 7.5, then copy it from 7.4 STARTER/config.rb
3. Will need to install bourbon (for mixins)
   • gem install bourbon
   • cd to the root directory of the theme
   • bourbon install (creates a bourbon folder)
4. Make sure any imports specify offset to _bourbon.scss, e.g.
   • Modify the themename.scss file to include:
   @import "../bourbon/bourbon";
5. Start compass watching theme:
   • compass watch [path to directory containing config.rb]
   • or better to use cwatch script:
   • cwatch start path_to_watch