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Sass extends CSS with variables, nesting, mixins and more. Here I show how to convert plain CSS to SCSS in a Rails 3.1 app.

In preparing to show off SASS, I found the Compass system, which uses SASS and organizes your stylesheets in a unique way. In this tutorial, I walk you though installing compass, installing the 960 grid system, and organizing your SASS stylesheets in an intelligent way. One note, I couldn’t remember the URL for the 960 [...]

This is a basic demonstration of adding a rake task to Ruby on Rails. Some of the same principles apply to Rake in general. You also see how to call out to the command line and how to convert ERB and HTML to HAML.

Welcome to part two of our Introduction to Sass. If you’re new to Sass, start with our first Introduction to Sass screencast. We’ll be building on what we’ve learned there. In this screencast we’re going to cover some more of what Sass has to offer, including the @import rule, partials,...

In this screencast we’re going to show how Sass can simplify, structure and speed up your styling workflow. Like Haml, Sass is the brain child of Hampton Catlin and stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets. And it lives up to it’s name, Sass stylesheets are awesome! Watch this screencast to find...

This is a quick demonstration of how to switch your Rails 3 application to HAML from ERB.