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ABOUT SASS AND COMPASS
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This directory includes Sass versions of Zen's CSS files.
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Sass is a language that is just normal CSS plus some extra features, like
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variables, nested rules, math, mixins, etc. If your stylesheets are written in
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Sass, helper applications can convert them to standard CSS so that you can
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include the CSS in the normal ways with your theme.
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To learn more about Sass, visit: http://sass-lang.com
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Compass is a helper library for Sass. It includes libraries of shared mixins, a
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package manager to add additional extension libraries, and an executable that
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can easily convert Sass files into CSS.
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To learn more about Compass, visit: http://compass-style.org
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DEVELOPING WITH SASS AND COMPASS
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To automatically generate the CSS versions of the scss while you are doing theme
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development, you'll need to tell Compass to "watch" the sass directory so that
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any time a .scss file is changed it will automatically place a generated CSS
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file into your sub-theme's css directory:
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compass watch <path to your sub-theme's directory>
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If you are already in the root of your sub-theme's directory, you can simply
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type: compass watch
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While using generated CSS with Firebug, the line numbers it reports will be
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wrong since it will be showing the generated CSS file's line numbers and not the
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line numbers of the source Sass files. To correct this problem, you can install
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the FireSass plug-in into Firefox and then edit your sub-theme's config.rb file
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to set: firesass = true
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firesass-for-firebug/
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MOVING YOUR CSS TO PRODUCTION
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Once you have finished your sub-theme development and are ready to move your CSS
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files to your production server, you'll need to tell sass to update all your CSS
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files and to compress them (to improve performance). Note: the Compass command
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will only generate CSS for .scss files that have recently changed; in order to
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force it to regenerate all the CSS files, you can use the Compass' clean command
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to delete all the generated CSS files.
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- Delete all CSS files by running: compass clean
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- Edit the config.rb file in your theme's directory and uncomment this line by
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deleting the "#" from the beginning:
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#environment = :production
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- Regenerate all the CSS files by running: compass compile
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And don't forget to turn on Drupal's CSS aggregation. :-)
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