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You can do this by either creating a regular CSS file and changing the extension, or by creating a blank text file and changing the. So instead of the usual “.css” extension, you’re simply adding an “s” to the front of the extension. Now, using Windows Explorer, go into that folder and create a new CSS file with the extension “.scss”. Notice that I’ve navigated using the “cd” or “change directory” command to locate the folder I’m working in. Here’s how my prompt looked after I navigated to my folder: You can check out this link or just do a Google search for tutorials on simple command-line expressions. This is not a tutorial on command-line syntax, so you’ll have to figure that out on your own if you’ve never done it. In the command prompt, navigate to the folder where you’re going to write your CSS using Sass syntax.

Now that Ruby and Sass are installed, you want to tell Sass what file you’re working on and let it compile your CSS from your Sass file. I won’t get into the details on Compass here, but you can Google around for some info on that once you’ve started using Sass.

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If you want to have the added benefit of Compass, which is an authoring framework that uses Sass, you can instead choose to do “gem install compass”, which will install both Compass and Sass at the same time. Then hit “enter”, and wait for Sass to be installed. Once the command prompt is open, install Sass by typing the following in the prompt:

Start–>All Programs–>Accessories, then choose “Command Prompt”.

To do this, open the command prompt by doing one of the following: Now that you have Ruby installed, you’ll be able to install Sass. Install Sass on Windows Using the Command Prompt But that should be enough for the first step.

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If anyone has any other pertinent info on this particular aspect of the setup, then please comment and I’ll update accordingly. Otherwise, you’ll get the error message “ruby is not recognized as an internal or external command” when you try to install Sass in the command prompt (see next step). When you go through the installation wizard, you’ll come to this options screen:įrom what I can tell, the only option that you need to check on that one is the middle option, which helps your command-line instructions recognize where to find (as it says) “Ruby executables”. Unlike OS X, Ruby is not installed by default on Windows, so Windows users need to install it manually. Install Rubyīecause Sass is a Ruby gem, the first thing you need to do is install Ruby using the Windows installer. But if you have no interest in going through all these steps, but still want to use Sass on Windows, well, just skip to the final heading in this post for a list of apps that let you start using Sass on Windows with minimal setup. Overall, Sass is not difficult at all to get set up, even if you’re doing it on the command-line. This article is filed under the CSS Basics category on this blog, but any developers who already use Sass on Windows can add their feedback, too.

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Most of that info is geared towards Mac users, so in this post I’m providing a very simple guide to help Windows-based developers get up and running quickly with Sass (my preprocessor of choice). There’s a ton of information floating around on preprocessors nowadays.