Turns out there is a way to use SASS without an application like Rails or Compass. It is fairly easy to get it up and running, especially if you are developing on a Mac because Ruby already comes pre-installed! ️️Otherwise, you’ll need to install Ruby on your computer.

After Ruby is installed, you need to install SASS. Just run the following:

gem install sass

Note: if you run into errors, you might need to use the sudo command.

When the installation is done, you can double-check by typing:

sass -v

This should show the SASS version installed. For example, it might say Sass 3.4.22 (Selective Steve).

After all that is done, SASS is ready to run! You can run either individual files or entire directories. You can even watch folders or directories with the --watch flag. For example, if I have all my stylesheets in a folder called “stylesheets”, I can just run the following command:

sass --watch path/to/project/stylesheets/

Reference: Using SASS