Installing Sass and Compass Across All Platforms

11/4/2012

One of the most frequent questions that gets asked of me is how to install Sass+Compass across platform. Without further adue, here are the instructions for the three major platforms.

Mac

Fortunately for us Mac users, Ruby and Ruby Gems comes pre-installed on our systems. Installing Sass+Compass is as easy as the following:

sudo gem install compass

You will be asked to type in your user password. Do so, press enter, and you’ve got Sass+Compass installed.

Windows is a little bit more complicated, but not particularly. Go to RubyInstaller, download the installer, and follow the wizard. It will install a program called “Start Command Prompt with Ruby”; open it and type in the following:

gem install compass

Linux/Unix

Linux/Unix systems are a little bit harder. These instructions assume that you’ve got access to apt-get installed. Open up your terminal and type in the following:

sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential

sudo apt-get install rubygems

export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:$PATH
sudo gem install compass

Done and done! Enjoy Sass+Compass!