Sass and Compass in Action

Appendix B. Getting started with Compass

B.1. Create a new project

To start using Compass in a new project, open up your terminal and run the following:

$ compass create my-project

This will create the my-project directory if it doesn’t already exist and fill it with the following files:

my-project/
  config.rb
  - sass/
    - ie.scss
    - print.scss
    - screen.scss
  - stylesheets/
    - ie.css
    - print.css
    - screen.css

If you don’t pass a directory to the compass create command, it’ll use your current directory.

In config.rb, you’ll make changes to Compass configurations like asset locations and compression level (more on that in a moment). The sass directory contains some starter stylesheets that you can edit, rename, or toss out completely, but this is where ...