Breakpoint in Rails app

Question

I've been told by Mason Wendell that I can use Breakpoint in my application without Compass.

I have gem 'breakpoint', '2.4.1' in my Gemfile and @import "breakpoint" in my application.css.sass but it fails to locate Breakpoint.

Mason stated "Just get your import paths to find the _breakpoint.scss partial and you should be all set.".

I'm a bit confused about how to actually do this.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

There are two styles of using Sass dependencies:

1. Fetch with RubyGems, apply with a pathless @import 'breakpoint';, made possible by Compass.
2. Fetch manually with Bower into a subfolder within your project folder, apply with a relative @import 'bower-components/breakpoint/stylesheets/breakpoint'.

There is a way to import Sass dependencies with a pathless @import of a RubyGems-installed dependency and without Compass: put the directory of where RubyGems stores Breakpoint into Sass' load_paths parameter. But you should consider this a workaround rather than a normal workflow.