Disable compass in Zen subtheme

Question

I am using a Zen subtheme with Sass. I am using CodeKit to compile the Sass into CSS. In my workflow, I enjoy using CodeKit's visual system for project settings because then I can use autoprefixer and souremaps etc easily.

Zen comes with Compass support out of the box. In CodeKit, settings for the styles.scss file is disabled, saying "To change options & output paths for Sass files in a Compass project, you must edit the Compass 'config.rb' file directly."

I could find no way to edit the file to make it behave the way I want, so I want to disable Compass completely.

I tried deleting the lines which seemed related with Compass from the sass files, deleting the config.rb but there seems to be a setting somewhere which I cannot find. I checked out the project settigns in CodeKit but could not find a 'switch' to turn Compass off.

In short, how can I take Compass out of Zen's css system and use CodeKit to fine tune the compile settings?

Answer 1

So Zen uses zen grids for its grid (in some cases) and that has a requirement for compass/css2/images. if you aren't using zen grids, you can disable that dependency.

Another option could be that you can try to delete/rename the config.rb file entirely, as CodeKit may see that and automatically assume you want to use compass to compile your Sass.

A third possibility could be that in the bottom of _init.scss (STARTERKIT/sass/) it pulls in zen, along with alot of other compass extensions. try disabling zen along with the others you already disabled.