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CSS Compass Basics Getting Started with Compass Configuring Your Project

Juliette Tworsey
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Juliette Tworsey
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Configuring Compass into a pre-existing Bootstrap/Sass project.

Hi,

Does anyone know how to incorporate/configure Compass into a Bootstrap/Sass project that is already in development?

Thanks!

Jesus Mendoza
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Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
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Create a Ruby config.rb file that comes when you create a compass project pointing to the sass and css folders

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Edgar Gil
Edgar Gil
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Edgar Gil
Edgar Gil
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I will try my best from my experienced.

Warning To make sure you have compass install do $compass --version on terminal. (Without the "$") If you don't see a compass version google on how to install it.

1.Open your terminal, "cmd" or Powershell.

2.Go to your project folder.

3.Once you on your project folder ("Keep in mind you still on terminal").

4.Run this command "compass init".

5.This should, Add compass to an existing project.("Don't close terminal yet, we need it for our last step").

6.Now you should have a config file on your current project.

7.Open the config file and fix any path that compass has already put for you by default.

8.Once you finish fixing you config files.

9.Now go back to your Terminal and if you want compass to updated any change you make to your project.

  1. Only if you want to follow step #9 Run this command on your terminal "compass watch"

Now compass should be included into your new project.

Hope it help and sorry for my bad grammar.

Edgar Gil
Edgar Gil
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Edgar Gil
Edgar Gil
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I keep trying to edit and fix that step 10 but it keep showing as step 1.

the last step is 10 but is showing as 1.

Let me know if my answer help you.

Juliette Tworsey
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Juliette Tworsey
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Juliette Tworsey
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Thanks Jesus and thank you so much Edgar for taking the time to explain this to me. Compass init works, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be compatible with the bootstrap.min file that is also in my project....There are also several pre-existing sass files that are layered 3 files deep (maybe that's the problem, along with a pre-existing .cfg file. It's kind of a mess...lol...Or maybe I just need to start over from scratch..

Edgar Gil
Edgar Gil
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Edgar Gil
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That would be the faster way. Good luck. Glad i could help.

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