title: Configuring Compass on Windows
body: <p>I'm on Windows, and I have SASS running successfully in my project. Now, I want to include compass so I can take advantage of the pre-written mixins, etc.</p>
  
  <p>First I simply tried this statement from within my working sass file: <code>@import "compass/css3/transform";</code></p>
  
  <p>Naturally, this didn't work since I didn't have compass installed, so I navigated to my Ruby directory and successfully installed the compass gem within <code>c:/ruby193/bin</code>. I can now successfully create compass projects within <code>c:/ruby193/bin</code>, but that doesn't do me much good.</p>
  
  <p>I need run compass commands within my site, which lives here: <code>c:/inetpub/mysite</code>. When I try to do so, however, I get <code>compass is not recognized as internal or external command</code></p>
  
  <p>How can I get compass to work <em>where</em> I want it?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: <em>a large part of my problem was that Ruby was installed without adding itself to the Windows Path environment variables, so I could only run SASS and Compass commands from within the C:/Ruby193/bin directory. This caused problems for me since, as a result, I thought that was where I needed to install compass. Anyhow, after figuring that out, I still haven't been able to get compass to work, but am planning on uninstaling SASS, Compass, and Ruby and giving this thing another try from scratch. I marked Stooboo's answer as correct since it was the best and most accurate, especially given the information he had to work with. Thanks!</em> </p>