Question

I recently implemented compass into a rails 3.0x app. I created an assets group in my gemfile and added compass-rails:

group :assets do
  gem "compass-rails"
end

I then ran bundle exec compass init rails . from the root of my app. It created the print.css, ie.css, etc.

However, it doesn’t seem to compile my changes. Most importantly, I had an existing .scss file that I need to be compiled as well. But none of them are being watched. What do I need to do to have it update my css files when I edit my scss files?

My .scss files are stored in app/assets/stylesheets and my css files are stored in public/stylesheets

Answer 1

From the gem documentation:

Rails 3.0 Caveats

If you want rails to compile your stylesheets (instead of using the compass watcher) you need to edit config/application.rb and change:

Bundler.require(:default, Rails.env) if defined?(Bundler)

to this:

Bundler.require(:default, :assets, Rails.env) if defined?(Bundler)