Question

I’m circumventing the built-in Yeoman server and severing files directly from the /app directory. Since Yeomen’s server manages compass/sass compliation I’m having a hard time running compass outside of it. Running the compass cli directly doesn’t work; it’s not aware that it’s in an existing compass project. So I get:

$ compass watch /app (or /app/styles)
Nothing to compile. If you're trying to start a new project, you have left off the directory argument.

Has anybody had experience getting this to work?

Answer 1

You have to move your Compass settings out into a config.rb file to use the Compass CLI.

However, you can easily run the Compass grunt task individually like so grunt compass to compile, or grunt watch to automagically compile on file changes.